Your First STR: Hospitality Secrets from Top Hotel Brands for New Hosts

  • By Katie Cline
  • Beginner Hosts
  • 2.5 hours
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Discover how to elevate your short-term rental into a hospitality-driven brand. Learn to host with intention, design unforgettable guest journeys, and build an STR business that feels both meaningful and scalable.

What's included?

  • 5 Chapters
  • 1 Certification
  • 10 Questions

Become a Confident Host

You will learn how to launch and manage your first short-term rental with confidence, build simple systems for guest communication and operations, apply hotel-level hospitality to your own property, and create a space that consistently earns 5-star reviews

Your Hosting Story

You will also learn how to put everything into practice and build your own sustainable hosting approach, one that works for your property, your schedule, and your life.
Meet the instructor

Katie Cline

Katie Cline owns three vacation rentals in upstate New York: Trout Landing, Gallant Fox, and The Lazy Oar, and hosts two podcasts: Skift's Suite Success and Second Home First.

An award-winning publicist, she has led communications for The Ritz-Carlton, W Hotels, and St. Regis.

Katie is also a sought-after speaker and contributor for Entrepreneur, Business Insider, Yahoo!, MSN, and The Everymom.
Patrick Jones - Course author