Stop Exhibiting.
Start Living In The Building.

This is a heavily curated event. Every delegate is vetted personally by Mark Simpson. The minimum standard: you manage or serve at least 20 short-term rental properties.

Confirmed in the building for October 2026:

• — Simon Lehmann, AJL Atelier — one of the most respected voices in global short-term rental
• — ARQDIA — headline sponsor, penthouse experience
• — Hostaway — confirmed Icebreaker co-sponsor
• — 70 curated STR operators, property managers and founders from across the US and UK

These are not conference attendees browsing an exhibit hall. These are the decision-makers — the people buying software, evaluating tools, and running businesses. They are sleeping in the same building as your team for four nights.

We've taken over the entire Maddox Hotel — a stunning boutique hotel in the heart of downtown Nashville, five minutes from Broadway and twelve minutes on foot from Music City Center.

Nine named suites across seven floors. Every suite has its own full kitchen, living space, and game room — pool tables, air hockey, shuffleboard. The Hitchcock Tavern, one of Nashville's most extraordinary cocktail lounges, sits on the ground floor of the same building.

This is not a hotel with a conference room. It is a private building, fully taken over by Backstage Nashville, from Sunday 4th to Wednesday 7th October 2026.

Your team is not in a room across town. They are inside the building where all 70 operators are based, from arrival to checkout.

Sunday 4th October. Every delegate arrives, drops their bags, and walks downstairs into The Hitchcock Tavern.

The Hitchcock is not a hotel bar. It is a proper cocktail lounge — 1,900 square feet of art deco design on the ground floor of The Maddox. $600,000 fit-out. Original terrazzo floors from 1893. Described by guests as one of the most extraordinary bars in Nashville.

What starts as a welcome dinner becomes The Famous Icebreaker Party — hosted by Mark Simpson personally. Up to 100 operators in one room. Sunday night. Nashville.

Hostaway are confirmed as Icebreaker co-sponsor. We are looking for additional co-sponsors to be part of this night. If you want your brand on the room when VRMA week begins — get in touch.

Every sponsor package at Backstage Nashville includes a room in the building.

Your team member — a sales rep, account executive, founder, or whoever makes most sense — sleeps at The Maddox for four nights. They eat breakfast with 70 operators every morning. They walk down to VRMA with the group. They are in the building for every conversation that matters.

This is not a logo on a banner. This is access.

There is one entry point: email Mark directly. Tell him who you are and what you're trying to achieve. He will build the right arrangement around your goals.

Every sponsorship package is $5,000. Every package includes a room in the building.

Four days beats four months of follow-up emails.

The operators in that building are making buying decisions. They are evaluating software, switching providers, and building relationships that last for years. Getting your team in the same building — at the same breakfast table, in the same bar, on the same floor — for four consecutive days is the most efficient sales environment available at any STR event.

No booth. No badge. No thirty-second pitch at a crowded trade show.

Just your people, their people, and four days to build something real.

All sponsorship enquiries go directly to Mark Simpson.

Email: mark@boostly.co.uk
Subject: Backstage Nashville

Tell him who you are and what you're looking to achieve. He'll come back to you within 24 hours.