Hi Fay,
What a beautiful listing you have and congratulations for being such a wonderful new host who puts so much care and effort in their listing!
Here are my suggestions:
1. Open up your calendar if you wish to get more bookings. At the moment you have a few dates open in September and about a month into the future. It's great you have 5 star reviews, but if dates are blocked, guests won't be able to enquire or book;
2. Put a lock on the bedroom door. As it is a private room you are hosting in, it would be very helpful and certainly appreciated by the guests if you put a lock on the bedroom door;
3. Emphasize the private room aspect. I see that the description and most of the pictures do not reflect what the private space has to offer, a couple of pictures are blurry, such as the bathroom and kitchen (or it seems so on my screen), add some bathroom towels and take some close up pictures of the bathroom sink and the shower/tub; add some throw pillows or decorative pillows to the queen bed to make it look more appealing maybe.
4. Change the profile picture and update other pictures. I see that you have a plain pool picture on profile, I would say pick a better picture either to show the bedroom or the living space in a better light. Travelers looking to book a spare room do not necessarily look for a pool;
5. Update your profile - it seems that either some of your profile description is lost in translation or it is not translated in English properly. You say you want to share a cup of something in your profile and I would want to know what it is you specialize in as it just has three dot in my screen like its a mystery;
6. Fix some unknowns in your profile and picture descriptions. There is a picture showing Ray something, I am not sure what it is. While it is a good areal picture, you can clarify if that's the name of the real estate company or your House name, etc. There are some descriptions that are not correct in English, some distance measured in metrics only and some travelers like Americans would not know what they are.
7. Once you put a lock on the door, please make sure to update that in your profile in the amenities as you will get much more bookings when guests see a lock. I can't emphasize how important this is for travelers.
8. Take a picture of the house entrance if possible. Your place is so big and gorgeous but when I look at the pictures, there are so many areas I get confused what is where. I believe guests want to see what they will see when they arrive, i.e. front door entrance area, etc. Then take a picture of the living space with the front door open, then take better pictures of the kitchen area, coffee maker, toaster, fridge etc to be seen in pictures. People looking for private rooms really want to see basics and not a whole lot of the villa like a golf course in my opinion, but I may be wrong.
9. Check how many extra guests can you allow. The space looks huge, maybe a couple is travelling with a young child and you don't mind if they use a floor mattress or inflatable to have the child stay in the room, or maybe some travelers are looking for an extra friend to join them, if you could add an extra optional mattress to your room, that can be a game changer.
Other than this, if anything else comes to mind I will get in touch.
Good luck and congratulations again for being such a great new host.
Rose.
