Would you like to rent out your vacation home to someone who shares your passion for sport or is looking for accommodation in a great location for their sporting activities? It’s possible, thanks to Sportihome, the leading platform for sports vacation rentals!
Vacation rentals between private individuals offer many advantages. For the renter, it’s a practical, flexible alternative to hotels, often offering attractive value for money. On the owner’s side, vacation home rentals are a good way to generate additional income, while meeting new people keen to discover the attractions of their region. So it’s hardly surprising that vacation accommodation booking platforms are all the rage!
One in particular caught our attention. It’s the French startup Sportihome. By bringing together hosts and travelers who share the same sporting affinities, this young start-up focuses on exchange and sharing around common values. In this way, it sets itself apart from generalist platforms with its singular, innovative and resolutely human offering for successful sports vacations.
Are you a homeowner? Here’s why you’ll love renting out your vacation home on the Sportihome platform!
A unique concept based on experience and sharing
Photo credit: Sportihome
Founded in 2017 in Montpellier by Frédéric Diaw and Sylvain Morel, two outdoor sports enthusiasts, Sportihome is a platform for booking vacation rentals between private individuals who share a passion for sport. In concrete terms, the platform enables hosts to rent out their property to travelers looking for spots to practice their favorite sport: hiking, surfing, mountain biking, road biking, kayaking, skiing… The activities on offer are highly varied!
Whether chalet, villa, maison d’hôte or apartment, all Sportihome properties are located close to practice areas. Hosts can also rent out their sports equipment to travelers for an optimal experience.
With this innovative approach to rental, based on sporting affinities, Sportihome offers a new way of traveling that is clearly in tune with the times. Today, the platform brings together a community of 2 million unique visitors in search of new sensations combining a change of scenery, sport and vacations!
- 60 sports listed
- 10,000 vacation rentals in the most beautiful regions of France and abroad
- 3,000 unique spots to practice your favorite sports
- 20,000 sports activities to choose from
- 4 languages: French, English, Spanish, German
Stay, share, play
As an owner, it’s up to you to choose how you want to share the Sportihome experience with the travelers you host. The platform offers 3 sharing formulas through its unique Stay Share Play concept.
- Stay: by choosing this option, you simply offer to rent your accommodation close to one of the sports activities proposed by the platform.
- Share: in addition to renting out your accommodation, you can share your tips with other travellers and promote your experience as a local enthusiast.
- Play: you decide to go even further, by sharing one or more sporting activities with your travellers.
In short, Sportihome offers you the opportunity to enjoy a unique and convivial experience with your travelers, based on your mutual desires! And to get a taste of what the Stay Share Play experience with Sportihome is like, head to Brittany for a surf initiation with Fred, a Sportihome host for the past 5 years:
A safe and 100% secure platform
By enabling hosts to accommodate sports travelers, Sportihome brings a breath of fresh air to the vacation rental market. But that’s not all: the sports accommodation rental platform is a 100% made-in-France nugget, attracting a clientele of owners won over by its community of trusted travelers and its reliable, secure nature.
Photo credit: Sportihome
In concrete terms, Sportihome means :
- local, qualified and attentive customer service, based in sunny Montpellier. Available 24/7, it is rated as excellent by users on the Trustpilot review site. In fact, Sportihome is ranked No. 1 in the « vacation rentals » category!
- easy, free and hassle-free registration : as a host, you can register for free on the platform and publish your ads in just a few clicks. Online payment is made via Stripe, the world’s leading payment provider. When it comes to rental insurance, Sportihome has enlisted the services of AXA France, which provides coverage of up to 1.5 million euros.
- the support of recognized institutions and choice investors: Sportihome recently raised 2 million euros and brought in its first investment fund, Accurafy 4, an expert in digital scale-ups. Several national banking institutions are also backing the start-up, including Caisse des Dépôts Banque des Territoires, Région Occitanie and Bpi France.
Last but not least, former windsurfing champion and TV presenter Nathalie Simon is also one of the investors in this round of financing. What’s more, she has even become a Sportihome ambassador, offering her home for rent on the platform! So if even Nathalie Simon has done it, why shouldn’t you? Find out why she chose Sportihome to rent out her bastide in her video interview!
Exclusive savings and benefits
Would you like to combine the rental of your vacation accommodation with a good deal? Sportihome is definitely the platform for you! As mentioned above, registration is 100% free. Sportihome takes a commission of just 5% (excluding VAT) on each booking: it’s clearly one of the sites with the lowest rates on the market.
But the platform doesn’t stop there: as a host who wants to promote your accommodation to millions of sports fans, you can enjoy exclusive benefits with all Sportihome’s sports partners.
So, when you rent your accommodation on the platform, you benefit from :
- 10% discount including delivery on over 100 sports equipment items in the Sportihome Decathlon store. Ideal if you want to equip your vacation rental with sports equipment and boost your booking! Kayaks, trampolines, bikes, surfing, snowshoeing, etc.
- increased visibility among millions of licensed sportsmen and women. In fact, Sportihome is the official accommodation partner of several French sports federations (hiking, hang-gliding, fishing, water-skiing, etc.).
- relay your advertisements to a network of partners specializing in vacation rentals, sports and outdoor holidays.
In short, Sportihome does everything in its power to help you boost your vacation rental bookings with a highly qualified clientele of sports enthusiasts and outdoor adventure lovers. What’s more, the platform even gives you the opportunity to talk to your future tenants before accepting a booking.
Oh yes, and we almost forgot: Sportihome offers a professional photoshoot for owners who want to make the most of their rental property. So what are you waiting for to become a host? Visit the Sportihome website.