QIAS / Quality in Tourism release STR sustainability white paper
UK / Worldwide: Quality International Assessment Services [QIAS] / Quality in Tourism have released a global STR sustainability white paper, which reports the findings from industry associations and their initiatives to drive best practice for sustainability.
Short-term rental business travel bookings set to soar
UK: A newly-published white paper from Travel Intelligence Network, on behalf of the UK Short Term Accommodation Association [STAA], shows that short-term rentals are set to increase their share of the corporate business travel market.
Properly and Quality in Tourism partner to promote consistent standards
UK / US: In a bid to promote consistent standards across the fragmented short-term rental industry, quality assurance platform Properly and official accreditation agency Quality in Tourism are joining forces to work with short-term rental businesses that wish to “lead the way and reap the rewards”. The partnership comes as guests are increasingly expecting more […]
Is self-certification of your property enough? Deborah Heather, Quality in Tourism
UK: As businesses start to reopen and guests start to return, director of Quality in Tourism, Deborah Heather, addresses whether self-certification of one’s property is enough. It’s fair to say that things have been pretty tough in hospitality in recent months and there’s a definite appetite to return to some sort of normality. In response, a number of […]
Short-term rental sector to implement UK-wide cleaning protocols
UK: With the UK Government provisionally earmarking 4 July as the date when certain sectors of the travel and hospitality industry can re-open, the short-term accommodation sector is preparing itself for a safe and successful restart by implementing the new ‘Cleaning protocols for self-catering properties and short-term lets in the context of Covid-19’. The protocols […]
Calls for guests to check hosts’ accommodation insurance pre-booking
UK: New research, conducted by accommodation accreditation company Quality in Tourism, has found that, despite paying guests expecting that their accommodation hosts have adequate insurance, few of them actually bother to check this when booking. This has led to sharing economy insurance specialist Pikl calling for guests to make sure they check their accommodation hosts’ […]
Short Stay Summit 2019: Deborah Heather, Quality in Tourism
Spain: Quality in Tourism director Deborah Heather speaks to ShortTermRentalz at the first Short Stay Summit in Barcelona about “eroding” standards in the sharing economy and the firm’s recently-published white paper report on the short-term rental industry. For more information, visit the Quality in Tourism website here.
Quality in Tourism releases ‘Next Disaster Story’ white paper
UK: Tourism and hospitality performance assessor Quality in Tourism has released its white paper report, entitled ‘Safety Standards in the Sharing Economy: The Next Disaster Story’. The purpose of the white paper is to highlight some of the issues that the industry is facing and more importantly, a solution that hosts can adopt to ultimately […]
Protecting your livelihood; support and expertise from Quality in Tourism
UK: Following the recent collapse of Brighton Holiday Homes in May and the ongoing calls for the regulation of the sharing economy, we spoke to Quality in Tourism director Deborah Heather to gain her views on how and what to do to protect both consumers and hosts in today’s litigious society. In the last ten […]
STAA rolls out independent UK accreditation scheme
UK: The Short-Term Accommodation Association ( STAA ), the trade body for the short-term let and home-sharing sector, has announced it is rolling out the first independent accreditation scheme for the industry in the UK. The STAA sector trade body, which was formed in 2017, has sought to continually raise the bar for industry standards […]