Short-Term Rental Manager · Hospitality Consultant · Montreux, Switzerland
I manage luxury short-term rental properties in Montreux through Riviera Host. With 8+ years in Swiss luxury hospitality and two Master's degrees — in Data Science and Tourism Management — I combine operational know-how with data-driven pricing to maximise returns for property owners on the Swiss Riviera.
My career started in hospitality operations at Glion — one of the world's leading hospitality schools — where I completed a BBA in Hospitality Management. From there I spent the better part of a decade working across Swiss luxury properties, building expertise in revenue management, reservation optimisation, and guest data strategy.
What I found consistently was a gap: hotels had data, but the data rarely drove decisions. I went back to study — an MSc in Tourism Management from FHGR, followed by an MSc in Data Science from HSLU — specifically to close that gap. I'm now certified as a Microsoft Power BI analyst (PL-300) and Azure Data Scientist (DP-100), and I apply that toolkit to property management as much as to consulting.
Montreux is unusual. The demand is real — 250,000 Jazz Festival visitors, a year-round corporate travel market, strong leisure demand from Geneva and Zurich — but the supply of professionally managed short-term rental properties is thin. Most apartments list on Airbnb with smartphone photos and a flat calendar rate. The gap between a well-managed property and a poorly-managed one here is larger than almost anywhere else in Switzerland.
Riviera Host exists to fill that gap. I handle everything: listing creation and photography, dynamic pricing calibrated to Montreux's distinct demand calendar, guest communication, check-in, cleaning coordination, and monthly reporting. Property owners deal with nothing and receive a detailed monthly statement showing exactly what was earned and how.
My consulting background means I approach property management differently from a typical agency — every pricing decision is data-informed, every guest interaction is tracked, and performance is reviewed against benchmarks rather than gut feel.
My approach is straightforward: understand the actual context, structure the data properly, and make decisions faster and with more confidence. I don't just look at occupancy — I look at the gap between achieved and achievable rates, at which booking windows perform, at how review sentiment correlates with repeat visit likelihood, and at how individual properties compare to the broader Montreux market.
For property owners, this means you get more than a manager. You get a monthly view of where your asset stands relative to the market and what can be done to improve it.