Rent your holiday home to an individual who shares your passion for sport or is looking for well-placed accommodations for sporting practices? It is possible, thanks to Sportihome, the reference platform for sports vacation rentals!
The holiday rental between people offers many advantages. For renters, it is a practical and flexible alternative to hotels with a quality / price ratio often attractive. On the owner's side, vacation rental is a good way to generate additional income, while meeting new people who want to discover the attractions of its territory. No wonder as long as the holiday accommodation reservation platforms have the wind in the stern!
One of them has particularly taken our attention. This is the startup tricolore Sportihome . By linking hosts and travellers who share the same sporting affinities, the youth pushes everything on exchange and sharing around common values. It distinguishes itself from generalist platforms with its unique, innovative and resolutely human offer for successful sports holidays.
You own it? Here's why you're going to love renting your holiday home on the Sportihome platform!
A unique concept focused on experience and sharing
Photo credit: Sportihome
Created in 2017 to Montpellier by Frédéric Diaw and Sylvain Morel, two outdoor sports enthusiasts, Sportihome is a seasonal rental booking platform among individuals sharing the passion of sport. Concretely, the platform allows guests to rent their property to travellers looking for spots to practice their favourite sport: hiking, surfing, mountain biking, kayaking, skiing... The proposed activities are very varied!
Whether it’s chalet, villa, guest house or apartment, all the online properties on Sportihome are located near the practical spots. Guests also have the opportunity to rent their sports equipment to travellers for an optimal experience.
With this approach to innovative rental, based on sports affinities, Sportihome offers a new way of travel that is clearly part of the air of time. To date, the platform has brought together a community of 2 million unique visitors in search of new sensations combining change, sport and holidays!
Sportihome in numbers, it’s :
- 60 referenced sports
- 10 000 seasonal rentals in the most beautiful regions of France and abroad
- 3,000 new spots to practice his favorite sports
- 20 000 sport activities to choose
- 4 languages: French, English, Spanish, German
Stay, share, play
As the owner, it is up to you to choose the way you want to live the Sportihome experience with the travellers you host. The platform offers 3 sharing formulas through its unique concept: Stay Share Play .
- Stay : by choosing this formula, you simply propose to rent your accommodation located near a sports practice site among the activities proposed by the platform
- Share : in addition to renting your accommodation, you share your good plans with travellers and value your local practitioner experience
- Play : you decide to go even further, sharing one or more sports activities with your travellers
In fact, Sportihome offers you the opportunity to experience a unique and user-friendly experience with your travellers, based on your mutual desires! And to get an overview of what the Stay Share Play experience looks like with Sportihome, direction the Brittany for an introduction surf with Fred, host Sportihome for 5 years:
Safe and 100% secure platform
By allowing guests to host sports travellers, Sportihome brings a fresh wind to the seasonal rental market. But not only: the platform for renting sports stays is a 100% made in perimeter France , which attracts a clientele of owners conquered by its community of trusted travellers, its reliable and secure character.
Photo credit: Sportihome
In concrete terms, Sportihome is:
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a customer service of proximity, qualified and listening, based under the sun of Montpellier. Available 24/7, it is considered excellent by users on the Trustpilot notice site. Sportihome is there ranked n°1 in the category « vacation rental » !
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a simple, free and uninterrupted registration : as a host, you have the opportunity to register for free on the platform and publish your ads in a few clicks. Online payment is implemented via Stripe, the world’s leading payment provider. In terms of rental insurance, Sportihome has used the services of AXA France, which covers up to 1.5 million euros of guarantee.
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the support of recognized institutions and investors of choice : Sportihome recently raised 2 million euros and brought into its capital a first investment fund, Accurafy 4, expert in the digital scale-up. Several national banking institutions also support the young push, such as the Caisse des Dépôts Banque des Territoires, the Occitanie Region or the Bpi France.
Finally, the former windsurfing champion and presenter TV Nathalie Simon is also one of the investors who participated in this table tower. Better: the latter has even become a ambassador of Sportihome and offers its accommodation for rent On the platform! So if even Nathalie Simon did, why not you? Find out why she chose Sportihome to rent her bastide in her video interview!
Exclusive savings and benefits
Do you want to rent your holiday accommodation and map? Sportihome is definitely the platform that will seduce you! As previously seen, registration is 100% free. On each booking, Sportihome takes only a 5% HT commission: it is clearly one of the sites with the lowest market rate.
But the platform does not stop there: as a host who wishes to highlight your accommodation with millions of athletes, you can benefit from exclusive benefits with all Sportihome sports partners.
So, when you rent your accommodation on the platform, you get:
- 10% delivery discount included over 100 sports equipment on the Decathlon shop of Sportihome. Ideal if you want to equip your holiday rental with sports equipment and boost booking! Kayak, trampoline, bikes, surf, snowshoe etc.
- increased visibility with several million licensed athletes. In fact, Sportihome is an official hosting partner of several French sports federations (hiking, free flight, fishing, waterskiing, etc.)
- a relay of your ads with a network of partners specialized in holiday rental, sports and outdoor stays.
Clearly, Sportihome is working hard to help you boost your vacation rental bookings with an ultra-skilled, sporty and amateur outdoor adventure clientele. Moreover, the platform even offers you the opportunity to exchange with your future tenants before accepting the reservation.
Ah yes, and we were going to forget: Sportihome offers to the owners who wish it a professional shooting to maximize their rental. So, what do you expect to become a host? RDV on the Sportihome website .
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