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Interview with Naveen Sharma, member of the founding team at Lodgify

The Only Team Interviews, Owners

What does your startup do? Our startup is dedicated to develop innovative and affordable technology for vacation rental (VR) owners and property managers around the world, helping them grow their accommodation business. Lodgify is our brand new Software-as-a-Service solution that allows VR operators to create their own mobile-friendly website. In addition, it provides them with a Booking and Reservation System (integrated with PayPal and Stripe), and a Channel Manager which automatically synchronizes calendar and reservation data with listings that they may have on external vacation rental portals. What problem does it solve? It essentially simplifies the management of your vacation rental business. Firstly, Lodgify easily allows you to easily create a professional website with a “Book now” function, which means you can start accepting credit card payments online, without paying any commission. The entire booking process is automated, i.e., calculation of booking value, online credit card payment, email notifications to owner and renter, correspondence tracking, update of availability calendars to avoid double bookings, etc. Secondly, with Lodgify’s Reservation System you can easily manage availability data, rates, reservations and reviews, no matter whether you have 1 or 100+ properties. Finally, what makes Lodgify a complete solution, is that the Channel Manager makes sure that your marketing channels are always up-to-date and in sync. How did you come up with the idea? A few years ago, our parents had asked us to help them rent out their vacation properties, as they were finding it hard and time consuming to manage the business. We searched for an easy-to-use solution that covered our parents’ needs. However, we just couldn’t find one which suited... read more

Touring the best stadiums in the world

Diana Rodríguez Pretel Rankings, Travel Tips

The World Cup in Brazil will start in June 2014 and the Spanish national team will do its best to defend its title as champion. Football is always a good excuse to travel and touring the best stadiums in the planet is just a great plan. If you visit countries like South Africa or Brazil, it would be a sin not to visit the Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro, or the Soccer City in Johannesburg. It is a highly recommended experience even if you aren’t a football freak. Wembley, London The mythical Wembley is one of the most beautiful football stadiums in the world; it looks like a planet due to its shape and the ring around it. No doubt its image catches the attention of visitors. Since the new Wembley opened its doors in 2007, it has been shining every day as if it was a luminous work of art: it can host around 90,000 fans. Its construction was part of the London 2012 Olympic project and, of course, it deserved to go into the history of sports as the chosen venue for the opening and closing ceremonies of the games. via braveheartsports Soccer City, Johannesburg Soccer City brings spectacular memories to Spaniards, because it was the place where they won the World Cup 2010. Located in Soweto, this stadium became very famous because it hosted Nelson Mandela’s speech when he was released from prison in 1990, as well as his funeral in December 2013. With capacity to host more than 90,000 people, it is the largest stadium in the entire African continent. San Siro , Milan... read more

Lady Liberty and her less known replicas

Hans New Yorker, Practical Guide of New York, Rankings, Travel Tips

Although she is French, she is the most famous American symbol in the world. This beautiful lady has welcomed millions of people at New York’s Harbor and has given hope to her admirers just with her presence. She was unacknowledged and almost given away by neglect, but most importantly she has been inspiration to millions. Yes we are talking about the famous statue of the liberty. Lady liberty is probably the single most universally recognized emblem of the United States anywhere in the world. Its presence dominates New York’s harbor landscape today, as well as, when millions of Europeans came by ship to the land of opportunities. Furthermore, the statue is a spiritual and artistic statement of the values of the United States and, of course, an engineering marvel; no one had even attempted to build a structure anywhere near that size ever before. Gustav Eiffel designed the lady’s frame, which was very strong and sophisticated; it had to support the extremely heavy cooper she is made of. If the frame got out of position, her cooper sheets would crumble under their own way, so there is no doubt of the challenging and innovative elements of this unique monument. vía Celso Flores It isn’t a coincidence that there are many replicas and imitations of Lady Liberty in the whole world, because it simply represents: freedom for all. Here are some the less known replicas: Paris To return the favor, American residents in Paris gave the French government a replica of the statue of Liberty to commemorate the French Revolution. It is located in the Seine River near the Grenelle Bridge... read more