JAMAICA VLOG. 5 Tips to start AIRBNB.

[@craiggarrickfr4fgz877]

Irena you crack me up when you said What are the expecting to see in a bedroom "a duppy"!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

[@selectamark]

Yes I had to rewind video 😂🤣

[@saltynutzz]

I died 🤣

[@mgrant8376]

You’re a gem!! You put in countless hours to give us free excellent business advice. Your selflessness doesn’t go unnoticed. From the bottom of my heart...THANK YOU! May your blessings return to you 💯 times. One love. Btw, I watch all the ads. My small contribution.

[@JAMAICAWITHIRIE]

Thank you so much, this really helps! 😊🤗

[@teo.g.psychedelic]

Those insights into the inner workings of tourist industry in Jamaica are precious, bless your soul for sharing them. А ещё ты безусловно вдохновляешь!

[@eileenwatt8283]

Great job Irine. I was just thinking you should sell some products on your channel. You are always wearing those sleeveless tee with double colors . How about selling them on your channel. Maybe some with Jamaican colors.

[@RacquelNM]

I love how you get into the nitty gritty of the target market! So informative!

[@laya6774]

Irina you're such an impressive lady. I admire you. 🌸

[@FallacyAsPraxis]

Love this. The USA is now going to crap. I need to move to Jamaica with my kids and re-start my life. Thank you.

[@CheekyCanvas]

I’m right there with you!

[@melindas6573]

@@CheekyCanvas Me too! lets GO!

[@melindas6573]

That is my plan! I'm doing the research now!

[@tainamcdonald7021]

Yesss me too I love Jamaica

[@SammieGrant]

Air bnb is great because it opens up the tourism hospitality industry to the public! It’s not right that huge hotels make most of the money from hospitality in Jamaica, every visitor should stay at air bnb or small guest houses 😃🏝❤️

[@munch709NL]

Another fantastic informative video Irina. 👊🏽🇨🇦🇯🇲

[@jahnamejah7539]

Irina no one else could ever says it better 👍😊🙏 prosperity and blessings to you Empress Irina

[@davidgoldstein745]

you are brilliant! good job! Never been to Jamaica but when I do, I trust that I should stay at one of your properties!

[@claudiamoore2525]

Great advice! Keep them coming.❤🇯🇲

[@richardgoodison5555]

Yeah great advise .

[@carolt2198]

This was so informative! That's because you are a logical person. lol! Have you ever thought about doing voice overs for a documentary? you have that type of delivery for a format like that. lol. Take care!

[@tt2524]

Extremely useful

[@TellNoLiez]

One of the most comprehensive and fully transparent videos regarding Airbnb in JA ✊🏿

[@bundilee]

Thank you Irina, I’ve learned a lot! I can’t wait to see your next video re Airbnb👌🏽

[@bunnyveena8292]

Very informative as usual. You always give background, pros and cons and overall great information. You’re gifted as a teacher and a communicator. Keep up the good work. I bet you could make a vlog about crickets exciting 😂

[@eileenwatt8283]

That's true Irene. Before Covid i stayed in Airbnb all over the world in central city locations . Easy access to transportation and restaurants.

[@bruce7221]

Excellent video and information! Thanks for doing this.

[@wide-eyedwonderer4524]

I love AirBnB in Jamaica because it is a great opportunity for community tourism and as you said, local Jamaicans to gain an income and tourists to have an authentic experience.

[@keishaocasio3713]

I literally just made my final decision. As a Jamaican overseas who is an expert in Hospitality...I was worried that that genuine care would not translate. And I would need to be present to focus on my guests. Thanks you’re amazing

[@calandoful]

This was so thorough I really learnt a lot, thank you

[@JaydahTalks]

Thanks for helping me set up my Airbnb in Kingston xx you were so pleasant on the pirate tour!!

[@winstoncaarons4657]

You just eased many potential headaches

[@rosebrown1015]

Hi Can you tell us the best place to buy gated home in Jamaica ?

[@nursetmarie]

Awesome advice Irina! You are the best I swear.

[@justangel2393]

Early again as always great job

[@colinhaynes6048]

True ambassador. Thanks for the videos and education. ❤️👍🙏

[@selectamark]

Irina, your accent sounds like it has a tinge of South African in it! Shoutout from Birmingham Uk 🇬🇧

[@originalfoxylady4520]

Big up Northfield, B'ham, UK 🇬🇧

[@neilberry8248]

Sweet beautiful lovely lady thank you for sharing your videos with us love take care be safe bless up

[@yanikeonpurpose]

It’s the consistent format for me 😍😍😍

[@RacquelNM]

I cannot get over how on brand she always is and is so consistent and informative with her videos!

[@gaild.2213]

Always providing helpful, well researched information, thanks! A "duppy" LOL 😆

[@lennieadi]

Really on point Irena. Very useful. I've rented rooms in uk but Jamaica is going to be a challenge especially for senior aged host 😂. Bring it on lol

[@iamisaidi]

Insightful information indeed

[@theothershoerupnow4283]

It's funny you should mention a rooster. We stayed at a B&B in the past and early in the mornings a rooster would wake up. The last time we went everything was quiet and we found out the rooster was eaten by a dog. My husband said, thank goodness!

[@theothershoerupnow4283]

This is not for the lazy!

[@gloriarobinson1869]

Good morning Irie, on point again with great information buy Irie what do you know about "DUPPY" LOL.

[@eggzter]

I liked and subscribed ... absolutely love your content. Thanks for the really great advice!!

[@8chocolatecandy]

Thanks for another great video, Irina! I'll be in touch with questions when I'm ready to start my Air B&B. One Love!

[@hhewitt4772]

I keep coming back to this Chanelle because you are very detailed information I thank you for that💯💯 keep up the good work.

[@EltonGordon]

Hi Irie, we will be visiting Jamaica soon thank you for all your input and amazing reviews of Jamaica

[@namelastname2127]

Wow, amazing and so much information to help lots of people that you have provided, I really love the way you give all these points by hitting the nail so to speak, which goes for people who already have an airbnb and also for those who are thinking of it. Irina you are priceless and irreplaceable I can tell you that much. Lots of love for you as always ❤ 💕 Canada 🇨🇦

[@jasone3143]

This is fantastic advice Irina! We have been considering a condo for years. But maybe we wait for a minute or a few years and not deal with renting, great advice! We will be down soon though 👍

[@thejamericanbychyna6111]

Great info...

[@paulhenrycnd1]

Thank you, so much valuable information. Unbelievable, great job.

[@dulciehutchinson5913]

Bless you Irena! Very helpful video. Have a great day and look forward to your next video. Bless

[@wide-eyedwonderer4524]

I love the idea of a tree house in Jamaica Irena. I went to Belize and they had treehouses in the Maya villages. It was a good source of income for the villages there.

[@tpryce1754]

Irena you are amazing!! i have been looking into buying a property there and would use if for AIRBNB when i'm not there. You've helped me a lot. Thanks!!!

[@pammason5864]

Hi Irena, Really informative clear outline on things to consider if intending to run an Airbnb.

[@Dee-pj7hh]

So much to learn. Iris you sure drop tons of information in this video. It’s not as simple as some would let on . Great video iris👏👏👏.

[@adventuresfromelle]

Really informative! Thanks for sharing 🙏

[@mrp4372]

another great video i have ben hosting on airbnb for 11 years now and you are on point

[@glencampbell6217]

Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid, do not be discouraged for the Lord your. God will be with you wherever you go 🙏 JESUS CHRIST IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE ETERNAL 🙏.....,,,,,,,,,,,,//

[@originalfoxylady4520]

Thanks for the morning Devotion. 🙏

[@sherenesherwood2314]

Bless you.

[@samrichman1145]

Bigup yrself IRIE an thks 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿 Di is interested iwas ting of having my own AIRBNB 😬, IRIE that make sense good advice 🤷‍♂️...IRIE love yr vlog

[@mitsysimkelle2325]

A lot of interesting points about Airbnb. Thanks for sharing

[@elgranjero2284]

Thank you Irina. Great insights and very good tips for the person thinking of venturing into the Airbnb business.

[@napturallyyours70]

Very insightful information! Thanks Irina for sharing your experience and knowledge!

[@chriswilliams5063]

Awesome video. Really helpful to consider. Thumbs up

[@Igniting-Moments]

Star five video right here... I am so loaded with info and ideas right now. thank you.

[@dtucka]

Thanks Irena for all them viable tips

[@kereendawkins882]

Irene what do you know about Duppy 😂. I would love to meet with you.

[@hutchinsonjohnson2909]

Irie that.is the freedom of Jamaica and Jamaican take it for granted

[@travelling5039]

They are way too busy cursing their country to notice the good aspects.

[@hutchinsonjohnson2909]

Yes irie well done

[@brotherb9797]

Thanks for the information very helpful I am truly grateful

[@Opochtli]

👌👏🇲🇽🙌🔥Yo Irie, i love your channel! So happy i subscribed

[@elgranjero2284]

Very good tips Irene.

[@Doogz101]

Loved this video!!

[@orretthibbert2773]

This is beyond Excellent !! When you put this kind of work into providing thorough information and logical reasoning, you are able to help shape decisions. Much respect !!

[@HyacinthSankey]

Very informative. You have addressed some major concerns that I have! Anticipating your upcoming videos.❤

[@albertviana99]

Thanks for the tips! 🙏🏻 bless up!

[@christoroy1310]

Great stuff 👍

[@wide-eyedwonderer4524]

Late but I'm here! Thanks for the tips.

[@JaydahTalks]

Met you about a year ago on the Private island trip (I think 5 in one). You were also really helpful in pointing me in the rig by directions for my own Airbnb, sooo elated to see you on KZbin! How can we connect to speak about Airbnb experiences in Jamaica? Mines also get declined even though it’s literally identical to yours. Idk if it’s prejudice or what

[@shittywife]

The insight she has is invaluable, plus her charming personality is a winner... that my friend cannot be duplicated..

[@JAMAICAWITHIRIE]

Hi there! Thank you for the comment! I'm not sure when we could have met, since all our tours are run by guides, like Derrick or Winston, who are Tourist Board qualified guides. HOWEVER, I do meet guests from time to time before the actual trip just to say hello and answer any questions, so I wonder if that was the case when we met. :) As for Airbnb Experiences - it took me about 6 months to get through to have my first experience approved. Then I was declined about 10 times for each of the experiences, because they kept asking for more documents. Then they approved them.. but when covid hit - they cancelled all reservations and removed our experiences without warning us. From june 2020 until December 2020 I was trying to reach Airbnb Experience team to have my experiences restored (since we had a few hundred reviews and good ratings and I certainly didn't want to lose all that work!). It was super hard to get through to them, and after about 20 emails/contacts etc - they finally restored 2 of our 5 experiences... As for your Experiences being identical to ours - not sure what you mean, but if you also have a limited company registered, tourist board license, TPDCO license, JUTA license, Public liability insurance for your company, vehicle and the driver, professional guide and a brand new van. You will also need contracts with attraction places to be able to offer tours to them with the kind of pricing we offer. So far, I haven't seen anyone being able to run similar tours to ours on Airbnb and this is because we actually kept running these Experiences at a loss. This means we charged less than we actually spent and we had been making a loss with tours for several months before we could hit the goal and start making more bookings, which finally allowed us to make profits. So, I honestly don't think you can have identical tours to ours, unless you're ready to invest several thousand USD into this from your own pocket and several months of running around getting all the paperwork + contracts. And this is before you even set the Experience on Airbnb.. And it also took me a few years of travelling around Jamaica to understand what kind of combo can be created, so that guests would book it and then we can exceed their expectations. All of this at a risk that the Experience might not even work... or covid hits and we lose it all.. 🤦‍♀️ But to answer your question, no, there is definitely no prejudice. Airbnb company has no idea who you are, what you look like, what you want to do etc and they don't care about you or me. What they do care is a the documents you can provide and the kind of experience that corresponds to their requirements. That's all 🤷‍♀️

[@JaydahTalks]

@@JAMAICAWITHIRIEthanks for taking the time to respond. I’ll continue submitting then, I thought I was an anomaly! We did meet at the Burger King in Mobay before the tour.

[@dalebent6858]

I do Airbnb too I love to listen what you’re saying

[@galmax2000]

Great Info!

[@jolemadelacruz5912]

Extremely educational! Thank you.

[@TravelGlock_23_]

Hi Erie I’m a yardie living in Houston Texas i love your videos

[@roserose-vx7qt]

The target audience would already booked the airbnb before they meet with their host. At what point would the host be aware of their target market

[@JAMAICAWITHIRIE]

When guests are searching for a place on Airbnb - how do they choose the one to book? They pick the one that suits their needs. But how do they know it suits their needs? Because a host posts the listing on Airbnb and shows what they offer. So, to answer your question - hosts should know what their target audience is BEFORE they start advertising their place on Airbnb. And they learn about target audience from market research. I will be giving an example in a video with step by step instructions, I hope it helps!

[@Romeoodisea]

Love your Channel 🙏🏿🙌🏿

[@answermetvanalyzingallangl2047]

Excellent information

[@patriciashawwatkins2901]

Thanks, great video. Your information answered a lot of my questions.👍

[@seanmoodie2313]

Hi great video, do you know where would be a great website to look for listings for studio apartment or regular apartments for sale in the resort areas like ocho Rios.

[@ЕвгенийГерасимов-е5у]

Сибирский привет! тёплый ролик! выглядишь прекрасно!!!

[@phillipreid2414]

Irina that was very informative information. Thanks.

[@TheEchoingPen]

"A duppy" you cracked me up. Have to catch up on your videos.

[@richardgoodison5555]

Great advices love your video.

[@damionedwards2713]

One love to u both

[@kishataylor6963]

Thanks for an informative video. You are beginning to sound Jamaican now, "duppy" LOL.

[@omarmyers5099]

@Irina. I have properties in gated communities available for long term lease. Please reach out if you get requests for that type of accommodation

[@womanoffaith_dwong]

Did you do more AirBNB videos? Cant see any more. Would love to hear more x

[@1drdenise]

Thank you for this excellent advice

[@CenterPointConstruction]

very helpful

[@danielbuchanan3270]

Lol yesterday I asked somebody who I m encouraging to do this...they are overseas at the moment but from Manchester lol I asked her if she knows where her guests can go...she gave me some n then I listed more for her 😁 she said I definitely need to link with you...she is the same one I showed your channel to and now she is the one sharing your new videos with me as they come out...I told her you have duppy church, skating, brooks park, Mandeville town park, can go Mandeville, treasure beach, alligator pond, junction and Clarendon park area to eat, noisy river to swim, alligator pond, black river area (white sand here n no crocs don't trouble you at the beach) and treasure beach too, go guts river and see the manatees, go to Manchester golf club which is the oldest in the western hemisphere, milk river which is on top for the most radioactive in world and keeps temperature between 90 to 95 degrees Fahrenheit and also have potable water here, treasure beach sports and recreational park where there is also an obstacle course which include things like zipline and rockwall, go treasure beach for water activities, pools all around, can also go Treasure Beach to see a gallery/museum/sanctuary, bird watching between black river and treasure beach where you can see birds like flamingos and ducks, and opposite to the is bird shooting, cycling, hiking at lovers leap with a view by the tallest elevated lighthouse in JA, holland bamboo for curry and roti and middle quarters for pepper shrimps, boat out to Pedro cays or pelican bar or sunny island, go on farm tours, visit strawberry farm, coffee estate too, old railway station and lines and tunnel, ponds like wally wash where there is a two storey boat as bar/restaurant and water activities, Appleton estate tour where the railway may soon open up again to mobay (railway the oldest outside england in the colony), caves, cockpit country, bubbling spring, Jamaica zoo, accompong town, waterloo (first place to have electricity in Jamaica and even much of US and also housed a family said to be relatives of William Shakespeare) in Black River which was once only second in importance to Kingston because that was the capital of the country which has/had a popular spa still there and natural by a white sand beach and also safari on the river by buggy or boat and go to the bird tower to look over the swamp, also had some of the earliest methodists and moravians in JA, go to vineyard area and eat crab on the river or swing off or dive from a platform or rope into the river...also introduced horse racing to Jamaica...the court house once was used as a town hall and a popular dance area and theatre where ppl over JA and overseas came to enjoy and the high street was for the well off who lived in houses like waterloo, invercauld and magdala, there is a steel band at the parish church there, dolphins can be seen at times jumping out the sea between Black River (also the first place with car in JA and had the richest ppl in JA at that time) and Treasure Beach, best coco bread ever is at sunrise bakery in Black River, can go ys falls for falls and river and picnic and pools, go breadnut valley falls, persons like Donald sangster and George William Gordon and Mary seacole lived in the black river area, can go offroading and tailgate BBQ at Brighton river farm, fly out from Lionel densham for a view from the sky, glide down from malvern hills to treasure beach, go into the bushes of malvern to Munro college (the school that was the only one outside england registered there and has the most Rhodes scholars in the western hemisphere whose cadets fought in both world wars one and two and the names can be seen on plaques in the chapel there) and pick berries or look for baby snakes (they are harmless)...can also see and visit a few great houses in Manchester and there is a camp there called moorlands camp m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXKoaH5qrqeNkKM

[@lesliegriffin5929]

Nice job girl

[@annemariemckenzie-brown5648]

Best quote of video ‘a bed? What else should there be, a dumpy?😂

[@havamukt2665]

Привет мать!!!😊Как там с пресной водой дела на Ямайке обстоят???

[@namkebanyanklariti]

When you are on the north coast and west coast great but if you are south west or south east forget it: the market is oversaturated!

[@phylo69]

Good stuff….. I want to know more.

[@tonylevy4856]

Irie I love you good job

[@e.r3519]

Great video. If you buy a property in Jamaica and live there and also use it for Air B&B is that considered a business to help you get residencie in Jamaica ?

[@howie786able]

Great information ! Do you host for individuals or only your self. If you don't can you recommend a property manager.