One of the apparent consumer irritations with the world of alternative accommodation is the gap many will experience in the booking process.
This gap is essentially the point between wanting to secure a property and getting confirmation from the owner or host.
Such an issue massively effects the likes of HomeAway and Airbnb, with the former trying to reach a far higher level than it currently achieves (around one million properties).
The motivation for doing so has become more of a problem in recent years with the huge efforts by Booking.com to enter the marketplace.
The Priceline Group-owned accommodation giant only accepts listings for vacation rentals (as it does hotels) with instant booking/reservation.
According to data from AllTheRooms, such moves to give Airbnb users, for example, the ability to get instant booking has quietly increased over the course of the last year.
Airbnb inventory stood at 1,840,000 in the first quarter of 2016, of which 460,000 were instantly bookable.
Fast forward to the current quarter and the figure has jumped from 460,000 to 923,990.
Compare this to Booking.com, which is growing fast but is not behind Airbnb with 780,142 properties (all of which instantly bookable).
The total vacation rental marketplace has also seen a doubling of instantly bookable properties over the course of the last year.
AllTheRooms co-founder Joe DiTomaso says the growth is an illustration that hosts and owners on Airbnb, HomeAway et al "aren't screening renters - they are just making them available to the public, like a hotel would".