Duration

18 hours

Ways of Attendance

Online & On demand

Language of Delivery

Greek

Start Date

19 May 2025

Location

Athens, Greece

Description

The Short Term Rentals seminar will introduce you to the world of the sharing economy and how this activity has helped thousands of property owners and managers leverage their properties to generate an extra income. Today we see entire businesses based on this activity, with the result that several local communities consider it a lifesaver as it completely changed the image and economic situation of their place. There are of course challenges which will be thoroughly analyzed so that you are able to make the right decisions for a successful career in this field.

Objectives of the programme

  • Complete information on short-term rental in Greece
  • Which platforms are available to enter each property according to its characteristics (Airbnb, Booking, Homeaway)
  • What is the legal and tax framework that governs the activity so that you are not exposed.
  • How we do market research to know which areas and which properties are worth taking advantage of.
  • Complete guide on how to list a property on the Short Term Rental Register and online platforms.
  • Secrets and pitfalls hidden by the activity, what to look out for and what to avoid (photography, property promotion, benefits)
  • Step-by-step description for entering reservations in the register and in AADE.

Programme Benefits

By completing the course the trainee will be able to register a property on the online platforms, manage the requests and inquiries of potential clients, control reservations and payments. To welcome customers to resolve any problems that may arise during a reservation and finally to register the reservations in the short-term rental register or taxis on time.

Structure

  • Forms of the Sharing Economy
  • Historical overview of the short-term rental.
  • When did he come to Greece and how did we get to today?

  • Definition of short-term rental
  • Legal – regulatory framework.
  • Tax regime
  • The benefits in social and economic life.
  • The problems created (judicial decisions, legal vacuum).

  • Market research (factors influencing property selection).
  • Digital platforms (positive-negative-platforms)
  • How do I list my property on Airbnb or Booking platform?
  • Real estate photography
  • Property decoration
  • Registration of reservations in AADE.

  • Constraints and challenges that arise
  • Administrator protection and status (individuals-companies)
  • Property insurance and liability
  • Digital Nomads.

  • Social Media
  • Participation in forums about rental accommodation
  • Collaboration with bloggers & design blogs.

  • What house renovation means
  • How to furnish each room individually with taste
  • Lighting
  • Budget – expenses & liabilities.

Who it is addressed to

To property owners who are interested in being informed about this alternative way of urban leasing as well as to potential managers who wish to undertake property management either as individuals or as professionals.

Lecturers

Theodora Dima is the president of the Sharing Economy Association of Greece, she has several publications at conferences, seminars, articles in the press, radio and television interviews where she informs and promotes the idea of ​​the sharing economy to the general public. Its institutional role requires meetings with executives and special state agencies for the smooth operation and open dialogue between the state and the community of the short-term rental.

He has completed studies in the Department of Applied Foreign Languages ​​in Administration and Commerce, ATEI Epirus. She has completed studies in the department of Italian Philology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki where she also successfully completed her postgraduate studies in Linguistics.

She has her own accommodations, which she manages in the area of ​​Volos and Chalkida where she comes from. He is the Community Leader of Airbnb in Central Greece where he coordinates all managers of the area by advising and maintaining a communication channel (airbnb-community) for the smooth conduct of short-term rentals in these areas.

Samata Loukia has studies in Economics (National and Kapodistrian University), MSc in e-Business and Digital Marketing and a postgraduate degree (PMBA). He works as a Digital & e-Commerce Marketing Manager in a nutritional and health supplement company and is co-founder & CEO of Fertility Route, an online medical & tourism mediation company specializing in IVF.

Vrettakou Fai studied and graduated from the ATHENS ART TECHNOLOGY GROUP A.K.T.O. with “interior design” specialty. He collaborated with architectural-technical offices specializing in decorative and architectural studies and supervision of renovations of homes, business premises, shops, hotels. At the same time, he collaborated on the design of kitchen furniture with the Italian company “VIENTE”. Since 2017, she maintains her own Decoration office.

 

Modes of Delivery

  • Online: the monitoring of the programme can be done fully online in real time, having access to the courses and content of the programme is possible in real-time through the easy-to-use and modern platform of IST College.
  • On-Demand: The programme offers the possibility of on-demand attendance. This means that you will have access to video-recorded lessons that you can watch or refer to during the course. This means that you can access video lectures during the training.
  • Mixed: Create your own flexible study schedule using any of the above tracking modes in combination.

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