Lohospo

What Lohospo does

Lohospo GmbH is a B2B vacation rental distribution and booking management platform headquartered in Freiburg, Germany. The company aggregates listings from private property owners, hotels, agencies, and Destination Management Organizations (DMOs) and distributes them across 40+ international and regional booking portals — including Booking.com, Airbnb, FeWo-direkt, HomeToGo, atraveo, BestFewo, Casamundo, e-domizil, and HRS Holidays — through a single integrated Property Management System and channelmanager called Holidu Smart Destination (formerly Smart Manager/TManager). The platform synchronizes availability calendars across portals to prevent overbookings, auto-generates host websites (TWebsite) and embeddable booking widgets (TBooking Plus), and integrates with 150+ PMS systems through the TOMAS reservation system for hotel and agency customers.

Lohospo operates a sales-led, consultative GTM motion: property owners register via the website, are contacted by a dedicated personal account manager, and onboard onto the Smart Destination system with structured training. Acquisition is driven primarily through referral partnerships with dozens of regional German DMOs (Schwarzwald, Bodensee, Sauerland, Schwäbische Alb, Brandenburg, Thüringen, Hessen, Spessart, etc.) and word-of-mouth — the company cites a 98.5% recommendation rate from a 2020 survey of 502 online-bookable hosts, with the customer base reported at 7,000-10,000+ hosts across regional pages.

The revenue model is commission-only for online bookings, meaning Lohospo earns no revenue unless a host's property generates a successful booking; hosts retain pricing control and can self-manage direct bookings without penalty. Auxiliary revenue includes €110-150 per year + VAT fees for inquiry-only listings, a 5% commission on TWebsite direct bookings, and a 3% commission on TBooking Plus widget bookings. Supporting offerings include the Lohospo Akademie training platform and the Lohospod podcast for host education. Since 2022, Lohospo has operated as a 100% subsidiary of Holidu Group following its merger with Bookiply.

Name

Lohospo

Legal name

Lohospo GmbH

Website

https://lohospo.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Lohospo is a German B2B vacation rental distribution and booking management platform serving private property owners, hotels, agencies, and DMOs, distributing listings across 40+ international and regional booking portals via its Holidu Smart Destination PMS and channelmanager. It operates a commission-only revenue model within the Holidu Group.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Vacation Rental Distribution Platform

akta.pro primary industry

Direct Booking Platforms & Booking Engines for Hosts/Managers (THAMALAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Professional/Managed Inventory Vacation Rental Marketplaces (THAMALAB), New-Listing Onboarding, Setup & Launch Services (THAMAKAO)

Keywords

• Vacation rental distribution
• Channel manager software
• Property management system
• Booking portal integration
• DMO tourism services

Headquarters

HQ city

Freiburg

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Commission on online bookings: Lohospo operates on a pure commission-only model with no fixed costs, no subscription fees, and no setup charges for hosts. The company earns a percentage of the booking value only when a guest successfully books and stays at a host's property. This aligns incentives: Lohospo only earns when the host earns. The commission rate varies by product package and region.
2. Annual fee for inquiry-only listings: Hosts who choose not to be directly bookable online (inquiry-only entry / Anfrage-Eintrag) pay an annual flat fee, which varies by destination — e.g., 120 EUR + VAT/year (Vogelsberg region), 110 EUR + VAT/year (Bonndorf), 150 EUR + VAT/year (Bad Soden-Salmünster). These fees are lower than commission-based online bookings.
3. Commission on owner website bookings (TWebsite / TBooking): For bookings made through the free TWebsite generated for hosts, Lohospo charges a 5% commission on the booking value (plus VAT). For TBooking Plus widget embed bookings, a 3% commission applies (plus VAT).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Lohospo operates a cloud-based booking and distribution platform for vacation rentals, hotels, and Destination Management Organisations (DMOs) in Germany. Its core product is the Holidu Smart Destination system, which combines a Property Management System (PMS) and Channel Manager in one centralized dashboard, allowing hosts to list their properties, manage availability and pricing, and synchronize bookings across 40+ international and regional booking portals via a single occupancy calendar. The company earns commission only on successfully completed bookings, with no setup, subscription, or fixed costs for online-bookable listings.

Product overview

Lohospo is a B2B distribution and booking management platform for vacation rentals, operated as part of the Holidu Group. The core offering is the Holidu Smart Destination system (formerly Smart Manager), which combines property management (PMS) and channelmanager functionality in one unified platform. Hosts manage their properties through this central system, distributing listings across 40+ international and regional booking portals (including Booking.com, Airbnb, FeWo-direkt, atraveo, BestFewo, Casamundo, e-domizil, HRS Holidays, HomeToGo). Additional products include TWebsite (free responsive website builder), TBooking Plus (booking widget for external sites), Belegungsplan (occupancy calendar), and TOMAS reservation system with 150+ channel manager interfaces. Supporting offerings include the Lohospo Akademie (training modules) and Lohospod podcast for host education. The company serves individual vacation rental owners, hotels, agencies, and Destination Management Organizations (DMOs).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Holidu Smart Destination: A property management and booking system for hosts, combining PMS and channel manager functionality.
• Lohospo Akademie
• Lohospod

Products and services

• Holidu Smart Destination (formerly Smart Manager / TManager) Combined Property Management System (PMS) and Channel Manager that enables vacation rental and hotel hosts to manage property listings, availability calendars, pricing, and guest communications from a single dashboard while synchronizing data across 40+ international and regional booking portals. Designed for private SMB property owners, hotels, agencies, and DMOs in the German market.
• TWebsite Auto-generated free responsive website for Lohospo hosts, built from their existing property listing data and including a built-in booking function synchronized with the host's central occupancy calendar. A 5% commission applies to bookings made through the TWebsite (plus VAT).
• TBooking Plus Embeddable booking widget that hosts can install on their own existing websites, supporting automated availability updates and confirmation sending in German, English, and French. Lohospo charges a 3% commission (plus VAT) on bookings completed through the widget.
• TOMAS Reservation System Hotel and vacation rental reservation system used in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland with interfaces to 150+ channel managers (including DIRS21, resavio, nethotels, Protel, channelrush, and easybooking). Provides maintenance of master data, availability, and pricing for properties and hotel rooms connected to Lohospo's distribution network.
• FotoService (Photo Package) Professional photography service for vacation rental properties, providing modern images to showcase listings in optimal light. Multiple photo packages are available to Lohospo hosts to improve listing presentation and conversion.
• Lohospo Akademie Training and education platform offering modules on pricing, reviews, distribution and marketing, product and repeat guests, social media, and property photography for vacation rental hosts. Includes free monthly basic seminars and webinars for Lohospo hosts as well as additional paid workshop modules for Destination Management Organisations (DMOs).

Quantifiable outcome

• 98.5% of online-bookable hosts would recommend Lohospo (based on 2020 survey of 502 respondents)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration9 records

AI capability2 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

23 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• Holidu GroupflagshipOthers · 1 January 2022Lohospo and Bookiply merged in 2022 to become part of the Holidu Group. Holidu is the parent company and provides the broader technology platform (including Holidu Smart Destination, Holidu's metasearch engine). Lohospo continues to operate its brand for property distribution while integrating with Holidu's systems.
• Booking.comcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorBooking.com is one of the primary international booking portals through which Lohospo distributes its host properties. It is the largest global accommodation listing platform with nearly 29 million properties.
• FeWo-direktcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFeWo-direkt (part of the Expedia Group) is a specialized vacation rental portal operating since 1997, serving international markets with multilingual listings.
• HomeToGocoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorHomeToGo is a vacation rental metasearch engine that aggregates listings from multiple booking portals, offering properties including vacation homes, apartments, villas, houseboats, and more.
• atraveo (TUI Group)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAtraveo, part of the TUI Group, specializes in European vacation properties with approximately 300,000 listings including ski huts, villas, and residences. Atraveo also includes partner sites tuivillas.com and urlaubsguru.de.
• BestFewocoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorBestFewo has positioned itself since 2009 as a close partner of local tourist information offices, mediating over 1.5 million booking nights annually. BestFewo also has access to 1,200 travel agencies.
• HRS HolidayscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorHRS Holidays is a German vacation rental portal listing over 400,000 properties across Europe. Partners include ADAC Reisen, Holidayextras.com, Germanybooking.de, Berge & Meer, Globista.de, idealo.de, fewo.de, check24.de, and fewoferien.de.
• CasamundocoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCasamundo is a European vacation home specialist founded in 2003 and headquartered in Hamburg, with booking sites for Germany, the UK, Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and Poland.
• e-domizilcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributore-domizil has been mediating vacation rentals for 20 years, certified with the s@fer-shopping online quality seal. Properties are presented on e-domizil.de and over 4,000 additional partner sites including tourist-online.de, holidaycheck.de, and bellevue-ferienhaus.de.
• HoliducoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorHolidu is a vacation rental metasearch engine developed by the parent company Holidu GmbH, based in Munich. It uses proprietary image recognition technology to search portals such as Airbnb, Booking.com, and FeWo-direkt to find the cheapest available price.
• Schwarzwald (Black Forest) DMO networkcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPartnerships with multiple DMOs in the Schwarzwald region including Bad Krozingen, Freiburg, Seelbach, Rheinfelden, Alpirsbach, Schuttertal, Dreisamtal, Kehl, Bonndorf, and Weil am Rhein. Regional portals include schwarzwald-tourismus.info and nationalparkregion-schwarzwald.de.
• Bodensee (Lake Constance) DMO networkcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPartnerships with DMOs in the Bodensee region including Linzgau, Uhldingen-Mühlhofen, and Stockach. Regional portals include bodensee-linzgau.de, echt-bodensee.de, bodenseeferien.de, seeferien.com, and stockach.de.
• Sauerland DMO networkcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPartnerships with multiple DMOs in the Sauerland region including Plettenberg, Hönnetal (Balve, Menden, Neuenrade), Sundern, Warstein, Rüthen, Altena, Marsberg, and Lippstadt. Regional portals include sauerland.com, tourismus-marsberg.de, and sauerland-seen.de.
• Schwäbische Alb DMO networkcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPartnerships with DMOs in the Schwäbische Alb region including Sigmaringen, Neresheim/Härtsfeld, Ellwangen, Mössingen, and the Erlebnisregion Schwäbische Ostalb. Regional portals include schwaebischealb.de and tourismus.ostalbkreis.de.
• Brandenburg DMO networkcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPartnerships with DMOs in Brandenburg including Potsdam Marketing und Service GmbH, Barnimer Land, Prignitz, Ruppiner Seenland, and Fläming region. Regional portals include potsdamtourismus.de, reiseregion-flaeming.de, barnimerland.de, dieprignitz.de, and ruppiner-seenland.de.
• Thüringen DMO networkcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPartnership with the Thüringer Tourismusverband Jena-Saale-Holzland and regional DMOs in Weimar and Thuringia. Regional portals include thueringen-entdecken.de, saaleland.de, and weimar.de.
• Hohenlohe / Schwäbisch Hall TourismuscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPartnership with Hohenlohe/Schwäbisch Hall Tourismus e.V. for the Hohenlohe region. Regional portal: hohenlohe-schwaebischhall.de.
• Spessart region (Bad Soden-Salmünster)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPartnership with the Spessart region destination for online booking distribution. Regional portals include badsoden-salmuenster.de, spessart-tourismus.de, and spessart-mainland.de.
• Nordhessen regioncoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPartnership with the Nordhessen region destination. Regional portal: grimheimat.de.
• Vulkanregion VogelsbergcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPartnership with Vulkanregion Vogelsberg for online booking distribution. Regional portal: vogelsberg-touristik.de.
• Iphofen / SteigerwaldcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPartnership with Tourist Information Iphofen and Steigerwald region. Regional portals include iphofen.de, steigerwaldtourismus.com, and fraenkisches-weinland.de.
• TOMAS (Reservation System)coreTechnology or IntegrationTOMAS is a leading reservation system for hotels in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with which Lohospo is integrated. It provides interfaces to over 150 channel managers including DIRS21, resavio, nethotels, Protel, channelrush, and easybooking. Used by Lohospo to manage property and hotel bookings.
• BookiplycoreOthersLohospo was previously a standalone company and is now a 100% subsidiary of Bookiply. In 2022, both Lohospo and Bookiply merged under the Holidu Group umbrella to offer a comprehensive service for hosts, guests, and destinations.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Holidu: Parent company of Lohospo; operates a vacation rental metasearch engine and broader software stack for hosts and destinations. Comparable as the encompassing platform that owns Lohospo and Bookiply, with overlapping channel-manager, PMS, and destination functionality.

Direct peers

• Guesty: End-to-end property management platform for short-term rentals, including PMS, channel manager, and guest communication. Directly comparable core functionality, typically serving larger and multi-property operators rather than single-property SMBs.
• Hostaway: Vacation rental PMS and channel manager serving professional property managers and hosts globally. Directly comparable in unified inbox, channel distribution, and direct-booking functionality, though typically oriented toward larger professional managers.
• Avantio: Vacation rental software suite (PMS, channel manager, website builder) serving agencies and property managers, with strong European presence. Directly comparable in PMS + channel manager + direct booking functionality.
• Smoobu: Berlin-based channel manager and PMS for vacation rental hosts, with strong penetration in Germany and Europe. Directly comparable in core offering (channel management + booking engine) and target customer (SMB vacation rental hosts).
• e-domizil: German vacation rental portal mediating properties for over 20 years, also a distribution partner of Lohospo. Comparable as a German-focused vacation rental distribution channel serving hosts and DMOs, though operating primarily as a marketplace rather than a software vendor.
• Lodgify: Vacation rental website builder with integrated channel manager and booking engine. Directly comparable in the direct-booking website and channel-management use case for individual hosts, competing for the same SMB property-owner segment.
• Bookiply: Sibling brand under the Holidu Group, providing vacation rental software (PMS, channel manager, direct booking websites) to hosts across Southern Europe. Directly comparable in product (PMS + channel manager + website builder) and customer (vacation rental hosts), differing primarily in geographic focus.
• BestFewo: German vacation rental portal with strong ties to local tourist information offices, mediating over 1.5 million booking nights annually. Comparable as a German-focused vacation rental distribution partner and competitor for DMO partnerships.
• Rentals United: Channel manager and connectivity platform that pushes vacation rental inventory to 100+ booking sites. Directly comparable distribution breadth and target customer (vacation rental managers and agencies needing multi-portal synchronization).

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/lohospo
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/holidu-destination
• Instagraminstagram.com/holidu.destination

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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