Last updated September 14, 2026
STR Select evaluated VTrips among 16 short term rental managers in the Smoky Mountains and has not ranked VTrips, with facts checked Sept 26 2026.
VTrips · short term rental management · the Great Smoky Mountains
Regional Southeast operator with a dedicated Gatlinburg page; its site navigation separately lists Pigeon Forge and Sevierville as destinations. Fee not published.
VTrips is one of the 16 companies we verified operating in the Great Smoky Mountains, where VTrips trades from vtrips.com. VTrips is listed but not in our top 7 for the Smoky Mountains, based on the facts VTrips publishes today on vtrips.com. A published fee from VTrips and verified owner reviews of VTrips are the two inputs most likely to change where VTrips sits in the Smoky Mountains. How scoring works
| Website | vtrips.com checked September 2026 |
| Market | the Great Smoky Mountains |
| Management fee | See note above checked September 2026 |
No verified property list on record for VTrips in the Smoky Mountains. As of November 9, 2026, VTrips posts no portfolio for the Smoky Mountains on vtrips.com that we could find. A ledger for VTrips starts from a list VTrips publishes itself, so VTrips’s ledger stays empty until VTrips lists its homes. Until then an owner weighing VTrips can read VTrips’s pages on vtrips.com for any home count, then hold that against the figures printed here.
Claim this listing to submit your property list →VTrips sits in the Smoky Mountains evaluation as an evaluated manager outside the top 7, and the VTrips figures for Smoky Mountains below are the ones we hold on record for VTrips in the Smoky Mountains. VTrips is one of 9 companies evaluated in the Smoky Mountains without a rank, and VTrips sits outside the 7 ranked.
| Position of VTrips | Evaluated, not ranked, among 16 in the Smoky Mountains |
| Market page checked for VTrips | October 21, 2026 |
VTrips names 3 towns we hold registration rules for in the Smoky Mountains: Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and Sevierville. Each paragraph below for VTrips in the Smoky Mountains is taken from that town's own published rules for VTrips owners, checked on the date shown.
VTrips operates in Gatlinburg (Sevier County) in the Smoky Mountains, and per the town's own rules registration required of VTrips in Gatlinburg: yes; VTrips permit: Tourist Residency Permit; VTrips permit fee: $200 for a unit with two or fewer bedrooms, plus $75 for each additional bedroom. Covers the fire and building inspection.; VTrips inspection: yes, fire and building inspection tied to the permit fee, checked October 8, 2026, and VTrips owners in Gatlinburg work under that rule set.
VTrips operates in Sevierville (Sevier County) in the Smoky Mountains, and per the town's own rules registration required of VTrips in Sevierville: yes; VTrips permit: Short Term Rental Operational Permit; VTrips renewal: annual; VTrips inspection: yes, a life safety inspection by the Sevierville Fire Department, checked October 8, 2026, and VTrips owners in Sevierville work under that rule set.
For a VTrips owner outside Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and Sevierville, 4 of 5 the Smoky Mountains jurisdictions require registration; VTrips owners should check the home’s town against that file, dated October 8, 2026.
For VTrips, 2 of 5 Smoky Mountains jurisdictions list a fee with a number, and 3 require an inspection, which a VTrips owner should price into year one.
| Tennessee state sales tax on a VTrips stay | 7% |
| Local option sales tax on a VTrips stay | capped at 2.75% by the state, set per county |
| Sevierville local tax on a VTrips stay | 3% |
| Pigeon Forge local tax on a VTrips stay | 2.50% |
| Gatlinburg local tax on a VTrips stay | 3% |
VTrips is one of 16 managers in the Smoky Mountains evaluation, and the VTrips figures below set VTrips against the rest of the Smoky Mountains market, with the vtrips.com record as the reference point for VTrips.
VTrips lists no homes of its own. Of the 10 homes on record in the Smoky Mountains, VTrips holds none, because only 1 manager publishes a property list, and VTrips is not one of them.
Of the 7 ranked Smoky Mountains peers of VTrips, 2 print a fee with a number.
| Typical range in the Smoky Mountains to hold VTrips against | Most companies quote privately; published rates found range from 10% to a flat 20% of net revenue |
| Managers publishing a rate, VTrips included or not | 2 of 16 evaluated |
| Fee index updated for the Smoky Mountains row of VTrips | September 2026 |
| Ranked managers in the Smoky Mountains with a published fee, VTrips included or not | 2 of 7 |
What we recorded for VTrips in the Smoky Mountains: regional Southeast operator with a dedicated Gatlinburg page; its site navigation separately lists Pigeon Forge and Sevierville as destinations. Fee not published.
For the contract terms of VTrips in the Smoky Mountains we read vtrips.com and vtrips.com/terms-of-use on October 15, 2026, and none of those VTrips pages prints a notice period for VTrips, a minimum term or an early termination fee for the Smoky Mountains.
VTrips has not claimed this profile, so every fact on the VTrips page for Smoky Mountains comes from vtrips.com and the public sources listed under Sources for VTrips in the Smoky Mountains, not from VTrips.
VTrips appears in the Smoky Mountains with 12 sources across 6 outside domains, each listed under Sources for VTrips with the date we read it.
These are the 5 questions to put to VTrips before you sign in the Smoky Mountains, with what VTrips has published on each Smoky Mountains point at vtrips.com and what the record for VTrips still lacks.
Every figure on the VTrips page for the Smoky Mountains carries the date we checked it for VTrips, and the latest check on file in the Smoky Mountains is Sept 26 2026. Each VTrips figure for Smoky Mountains comes from vtrips.com or an official source about VTrips, never from an STR Select estimate. Where VTrips publishes nothing, we leave the gap as a question you can put to VTrips. Homes on record for VTrips in the Smoky Mountains are only those VTrips listed itself or self-reported through the VTrips claim flow, and the VTrips government facts for the Smoky Mountains come from the .gov page read for VTrips that day. The place of VTrips in the Smoky Mountains order follows the published methodology, and VTrips cannot buy a better one.
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