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2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and Paralympics Accommodation
The world will be coming to Vancouver and Whistler for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. Have you considered what you will be doing during the Olympics? Maybe some would like to spend the time in a warm, exotic travel destination. Others may consider a non-simultaneous home exchange while renting their home out. Following are some questions that you may ask before deciding to list your home for rent.
Will the pool of Vancouver hotel rooms be able to accommodate the incoming mass of world Olympic spectators coming to Vancouver in the winter 2010?
The majority of hotels in downtown Vancouver are fully booked — not by tourists planning to attend the Games, but by Vancouver's Olympic Organizing Committee that has booked 21,000 of the 23,000 available hotel rooms indefinitely in order to meet its contractual obligations. According to the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) there will be approximately 1.6 million tickets for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics Winter Games that will take place from February 12 to February 28, 2010; and about 250,000 tickets for the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games that will take place from March 12 to March 21, 2010. Compare that with the number of a few thousands of yet unbooked hotel rooms!
Does it present an opportunity for Vancouver and Whistler home owners to cash on the expected shortage of accommodation?
It definitely does. If you are a property owner in Greater Vancouver, Whistler, or any other of the neighbouring communities, and you want to rent that property out for the duration of the winter games list your Olympics accommodation now.
What will be the accommodation rates for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics?
Accommodation pricing is the responsibility of the individual accommodation owners. Tourism British Columbia, Tourism Vancouver, Tourism Whistler, and VANOC are not directly involved with either organizing the accommodation or with setting prices for spectator accommodation during the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. However, the expected average price per one-bedroom accommodation is about $300 per night. This, of course, can be higher or lower, depending on the quality of the accommodation, its location, size, etc.
How to make a furnished apartment or a private house visible to the international seekers of affordable, short term accommodation?
To be noticed you need to make yourself visible. List your accommodation in as many places as you can. Keep in mind that even one rental booking that you receive from your listing will be worth many times the cost of your advertising. Make sure to list on websites with high traffic that will bring high number of daily visitors to your listing (see our statistics). You will get better return on a $150 advertising investment at a site that brings you 50 daily visitors, than on a $25 advertising investment at a site that brings you 2 or 3 daily visitors. You can find page view statistics at the bottom of each listing’s at our site (see an example Olympics rental accommodation in Vancouver).
When to list 2010 Olympics Accommodation?
The earlier the better. Live ticket sales for the February 2010 Olympics commences in late spring 2009. For more information about Vancouver 2010 Olympics tickets visit the website of CoSport. Tickets for the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games will go on sale May 6, 2009. It is safe to assume that spectators will start looking for accommodation at about the same time as they purchase the tickets.
