@Kris105 If the "holiday card" feature allowed you to send a bulk message to all your past guests at once, I can see why it was time-limited or discontinued. A permanent feature that made it easy for a host to send a "greeting" to 1000 guests at once would open the floodgates to running Spam operations through their site.
I can see how some guests who have enjoyed your hospitality in the past would appreciate a personal note on a rare occasion, but I have doubts that anyone out there is eagerly anticipating spam from a past holiday destination announcing that they're open for business. If I were planning an international vacation during a pandemic, I would not choose a past host who's eager for bookings as the trusted authority on whether the destination is "business like usual (sic)," as that information is readily available online already, nor would I appreciate being told that air travel to that location is "safe" or "normal" when that is still very much in doubt.
Off-topic a bit, but it's funny that you think people in Europe are somehow less "anxious to escape to an island paradise." Did you know that Greece alone has over twice as many inhabited islands as the whole Caribbean? Warm island vacations are differently impacted by seasonality here, but I can assure you they are every bit as much of a feature of tourism in Europe as in North America, if not more. In pre-Covid circumstances it was no trouble at all to fly on a whim from Berlin to a lovely sun-splashed island for as little as $20, and maybe even pick up on a few thousands years of history while there. Not quite such an easy thing to do from Wisconsin.
