About Temple Holidays

Antonin’s story

I have run short-term rentals across two countries since 2019. I have built the digital infrastructure for several others. I have watched the market shift from “list it and they will come” to a saturated, professionalised, content-graded auction in which the median host now earns $14,000 a year and the top decile clears multiples of that.

I saw the generic-listing trap coming. So did the hosts I worked with, eventually, after the second quarter of a flat booking calendar. The pattern was always the same. They had a perfectly nice home, perfectly nice photography, perfectly nice everything, and no opinion. Guests had a thousand perfectly nice homes to pick from in the same town.

Temple Holidays is the field guide I wish had existed in 2019. Forty-eight themes, three budget tiers, a 97-source research base, a strong editorial voice. Built for hosts who want to stop being generic and have not yet found a useful framework for the work.

Editorial philosophy

Three principles run through everything published here.

Specific over generic. “A guitar on a wall hook beside a slim songbook of campfire standards.” Not “thoughtful musical touches.” The research is clear that specificity is what guests remember and what differentiates listings in saturated search. We name the object, the placement, the brand where it matters.

Restraint over superlatives. We borrow from Aman, from Cereal magazine, from Kinfolk. The publications that influence us write “essence” and trust the reader to bring the enthusiasm themselves. We avoid the SEO fluff vocabulary on purpose. Less hype, more signal.

Photography or color carries the visual weight. The page design stays calm so the work can sing. We commission or generate imagery in a single restrained palette. We do not decorate. The opinions are opinionated on purpose because the alternative is a content mill, and the content mills are already losing.

How we make money

We are transparent about this.

When the paywalled library ships in v1.5, a one-time $79 unlock or a $9 monthly subscription will open the deep playbook content for all 48 themes. Welcome scripts, sourcing lists, photography briefs, amenity ROI calculations, SEO templates. One purchase, all themes.

We will use affiliate links inside that deep playbook content where the link is for an object we have actually recommended. We will tell you when a link is affiliate. We will not recommend an object we would not buy ourselves.

We will not run sponsored content. We will not sell data. We will not run display ads. The publication is funded by the subscription and the affiliate links inside the subscription content. If the model stops working, we will tell you that too.

Methodology

Every theme has been pressure-tested against a 97-source research base. The sources include AirDNA, SummerOS, StaySTRA, RentalScaleUp, Hostfully, Borealis Basecamp, Open Air Homes, AirSimplicity, the European Parliament STR report, and 88 others. Citations link from the claims. Numbers are dated.

We update themes when the data updates. We tell you when we change our minds. We mark the last-updated date on every page. If a theme that worked in 2024 stops working in 2026, you will see the revision and the reasoning.

Get in touch

A real editorial inbox: [email protected].

Pitches, corrections, postcards from your finished build, requests for themes we have not yet documented, all welcome. I read every one.