Google Vacation Rentals and TripAdvisor are search and metasearch channels: they show your property, rates and availability to travelers who have not decided where to book. Optimizing them means accurate listing content and photos, rate parity and availability across channels, and a direct booking link that is competitive with the OTAs.
Lecce sells mostly through Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo and Expedia. For Airbnb hosts, Salento revenue is made or lost in about eight weeks. We open July and August early at confident rates, enforce weekly stays on coastal villas with Saturday or Sunday changeovers, and leave Lecce apartments on shorter stays because they catch guests moving between both coasts. Gap nights between week-long bookings in Gallipoli are filled with short premium stays rather than discounts, since late August demand rarely needs encouragement.
Booking.com leads for Italian and northern European guests, Airbnb is strongest for groups renting villas near the beaches, and Vrbo and Expedia add family and transatlantic demand in shoulder months. We keep Italian-language listings sharp for domestic August bookers, highlight distance to the beach in kilometres and use non-refundable rates carefully in peak weeks.
The full service is described on our other ota optimization page; this page covers how it applies in Lecce.