An Airbnb pricing strategy is the set of rules that decide what each night is worth: base, minimum and maximum prices, seasonal profiles, event premiums, minimum stays, gap-night and last-minute rules, length-of-stay discounts and per-channel markups. A pricing tool applies the rules; the strategy is what makes the tool useful. Airbnb Smart Pricing is not a strategy: it optimizes for Airbnb's fill rate, ignores other channels and has no event or gap-night logic.
Demand drivers in St Andrews: The Old Course and golf tourism; University of St Andrews graduations and term dates; The East Neuk fishing villages; Edinburgh day-trip and overflow. Typical guests: Golfers on 3 to 7 night stays, graduating students' families and American visitors. Where the work starts: Golf and graduation premiums, Open year contracting and Scotland's short-term let licensing.
Short-term rental revenue in St Andrews depends on knowing the fixed dates before guests do. Graduation week, Open years and the Dunhill Links all deserve their own rates and minimum stays, released as soon as the dates are confirmed. Golf groups often want four to six adults in separate beds, so bedroom layout drives value more than size. Many owners let to students in term and holiday-let in summer, so we plan the switchover dates and price the summer block as a single season.
The full service is described on our airbnb pricing strategy page; this page covers how it applies in St Andrews.