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Listen Up Holiday Let Owners! Why the Host Planet x STAA Roadshow Matters for UK Hosts · Host Planet: Airbnb, Holiday Let, and Vacation Rental Insights

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I'm really looking forward to getting out there, hearing the
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stories of hosts, understanding the challenges that people have
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got on the ground, and sharing what the SDAA and host planet
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can do for them to help people in their businesses.
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Anybody who comes will walk away with 123 things that they change
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in the business. You will learn something.
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The business will be better off. Why should you attend the Host
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Planet Roadshow? What's the latest on England's
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statutory registration scheme and what can you do to support
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the UK's holiday let sector? Andy Fenner from the Short Term
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Accommodation Association is the special guest on today's House
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Planet podcast, and he'll be answering all these questions
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and more on today's show. Andy, thank you for joining us
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on the House Planet podcast. We've got some exciting news to
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share. House Planet and the STAA are
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teaming up to deliver the House Planet Roadshow in 2026.
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We'll be visiting seven key locations throughout the year
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including Cornwall, Portsmouth, London, Nottingham, Bath,
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Chester and Edinburgh. How excited are you and what can
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people expect from these events? Yeah, it's going to be amazing.
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It's going to be brilliant to get out, get around the country
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and see some of the amazing things that UK tourism has to
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offer. I'm really looking forward to
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getting out there, hearing the stories of hosts, understanding
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the challenges that people have got on the ground and sharing
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what the SDAA and host planet can do for them to help people
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in their businesses. I was a host.
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I know it can be quite a lonely job sometimes.
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I was out there in South Wales running our own short term
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letting business and yeah, it's nice to know that somebody is
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coming out to our doorsteps and seeing people on the ground
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where they where they actually work.
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How important is it for us as an industry to get to people where
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they are? Because we do have quite a few
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events, but usually they're in London and it's difficult for
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property managers to maybe commit several days of a week to
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come and attend an event in London.
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So how important is it to to go to where the industry is?
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Yeah, I think it's really, really crucial that we do.
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And, and at the STA, it's something that, you know, we're
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really ramping up now. We spent a lot of time obviously
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with the change of government and the the general election,
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focusing on establishing the STAA is the national voice for
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the sector and making sure that the politicians were listening
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to our sector. But now we've got to to we've
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got to get out there and connect with businesses on the ground
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where they are getting, you know, as I said, I was a host.
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I understand that you can't just take five days off, go down on
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the train to London. It would be lovely.
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But somebody's got to be there. Someone's got to make the beds,
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change the sheets, check people in, fix the inevitable toilet
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breaks and everything else. You've got to be in your
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business. Having a business like we've got
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and something that we're getting across to politicians now, it's
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not just any old business. This is people's passion, it's
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your life. Tourism and short term rental
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tourism is completely immersive. It takes over everything you do.
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So yeah, you don't want to leave it.
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And we're also, and I was really proud of my business and the
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area where we were. And it's nice to think that
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people are actually going to come out and they're going to
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see it. When we're doing the roadshow,
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we're going to make sure it's the SGA team that we've gone out
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and seen as many of our members face to face, looked at their
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properties and talked to them when we're out there.
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And we're really looking forward to doing that.
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For the hosts and property managers who come along.
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What are they going to get out of the experience, do you think?
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What are they going to get from being there?
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They're going to get to connect with the people, put a face
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behind the, the, the names of the companies, which is one of
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the crucial things when you are a small host.
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It's different when you're a large property manager, but when
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you're a small host, you, you're dealing with a computer all the
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time. You're not dealing with real
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people. And it's nice to do that so you
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can connect to people, you can talk to them, you can share your
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challenges, share your ideas. And the other thing that we're
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going to make sure we do is share our successes because
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we're not, you know, this isn't a selfish industry.
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This is a sharing industry. I do better when other people in
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the industry do better. We're not competing with each
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other. So we're going to share.
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We're going to educate. We're going to share good ideas,
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talk about bad ideas and how we get around them, and talk about
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how Host Planet and the SCA are working on a national level for
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people's businesses. Now when I go in there and see
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the tourism minister, the MP for this, that, you know, that's
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great, but I've got to be able to have those voices of real
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people, real owners in the back of my head because that's what
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we need to get across to people. The STAA isn't about my opinion,
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it's about all of our members opinions and the only way we get
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that is by doing things like this with Host Planet where
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we're connecting face to face. And having the STAA involved,
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one of the huge benefits from our side of these events is that
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you will be inviting politicians and lawmakers along to attend
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and and to potentially meet some of the people on the ground.
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How important are those conversations going to be?
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Yeah, they are really crucial. I think it's one of the, one of
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the big things I've learnt since I've been doing this job is that
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politicians, they have ideas. We all have opinions about
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politicians. But as a general rule, people
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get into politics, they get into being your local MP, that your
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local councillor, because they actually care.
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It's not the highest paid job in the world.
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They're doing it because they want to do something for their
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community. Now, if they're doing the wrong
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thing and they're not doing something which is benefiting
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tourism and STR tourism, they're not helping their community.
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A lot of the time, and it's something I've I've sort of
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realised since I've started doing this, is that politicians
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often just don't know. They just don't know that
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actually tourism and what we're doing is the heart of
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communities. Our businesses, our short term
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rental businesses are the businesses that bring people
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into our communities, into our villages, into our towns.
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They are the businesses that keep the pub going.
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They are the businesses that keep the local attractions
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going. If we don't have those, the pubs
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fail, the restaurants fail, villages die.
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And that's what we've got to talk to MPs and politicians
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about. And when an MP in a book or a
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counsellor, whoever it is, is talking to somebody face to face
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who runs a business in their constituents, they understand.
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They can make that real connection between the headline
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that they read in the paper about short term, let's holiday,
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let's this, this and this. And then they look at that
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person face to face and say oh, I didn't realise those two
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cottages down there were this. I didn't realise that your
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people were helping support the pub.
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I didn't realise this. When we make that real person
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connection, it changes opinions and the best people to do that
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are the owners and the hosts who are in those communities.
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And then what we need to do as the STA and host planet is make
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those connections, put our hosts in front of politicians and we
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will all do better. You mentioned it before that it
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can be a lonely job. If you're running a short term
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rental, you know the benefits of attending events and networking
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with your peers and learning from them.
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So how important is it that people actually come out and
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attend these events from that side so that they can learn from
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others? It's yeah.
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You can't stress enough how important it is.
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Actually, I had this conversation just yesterday with
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one of my colleagues that often in in small businesses, the one
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person who never gets trained is the person who owns the
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business. You send your staff on training,
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you send your people on training.
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You read this, you read that. You never do it yourself.
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You've got to get out there. And I really encourage any host
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who's watching to to make that effort come and meet us, meet
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James, meet the host planet team.
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You will learn something. Your business will be better
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off. You may come and you may think,
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right, what I'm doing is actually really good.
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You might. But at least then, you know, But
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I almost guarantee that anybody who comes will walk away with
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123 things that they change in the business that they think,
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oh, yeah, I could do that. Because one of the, you know,
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being a host, being running a small business is lonely.
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You're out there, you're dealing with your suppliers, you're
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dealing with your customers. It becomes overwhelming and it
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all gets on top of you. And this is a real opportunity
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just to take one day just to take a break, come and talk to
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people, get some understanding of, of the rest of, of the
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sector. You will learn.
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And I really, really encourage everybody to come along.
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Fantastic. Yeah.
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So we're very much looking forward to the roadshow.
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We have the STAA obviously involved as the strategic
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partner for the entire roadshow Price Labs of a title sponsor.
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We're also working with the women in short term rentals
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community as a delivery partner. Those events will be in Cornwall
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on the 5th of February. Our event partner There will be
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Beach Retreats will be in Portsmouth on the 4th of March
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with the Island Holiday Company and Just For You Holiday homes
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will be in London on the 23rd of April, Nottingham with Simply
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Owners on the 14th of September, in Bath with Curated Property on
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the 7th of October, Chester with Sykes Holiday Cottages on the
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10th of November and Edinburgh on the 3rd of December with
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Adore Scotland. If you get to our website,
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Houseplanet dot Club, there's a banner on there already.
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You can click through to the roadshow and if you want to book
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a ticket it is £40 for a ticket, so very reasonably priced and
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STAA members will get a 50% discount.
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So head on there now, grab your tickets and hopefully we'll see
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you at those events during 2026. Andy.
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Then onto lobbying matters. So what's keeping you busy at
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the moment? Yes.
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So right now the big, the big thing with us is the
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registration scheme in England. It's coming.
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We're not entirely sure when we think sort of the first quarter,
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early second quarter of 2026 that ties in really well with
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the start of the roadshows. We're going to be able to feed
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that information directly in. We actually just last night had
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another request from DCMS, from from the department in the
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government that controls tourism and the registration scheme for
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some more information and more help from us.
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And we're doing that. And I think that's one of the
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big things at the moment that we as the SDA have been focusing on
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is making sure that our sector is a partner that government can
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approach, talk to and deal with. We have found that you've got
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to, you've got to get your point across.
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You've got to tell them when they're doing something wrong.
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You've got to point that out. But you can only do that if
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you're listening to and that's I suppose that's the biggest issue
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that we've got at the moment across England, Wales, Scotland,
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Northern Ireland is getting our voice understood.
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When you do, when you get in front of politicians and you
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tell them about our sector, almost everybody actually likes,
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understands and appreciates it because has the headlines.
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What are we? We're a load of small businesses
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owned by local people who often live in the community that are
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supporting jobs and investment across rural areas.
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What's not to like? In terms of the registration
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scheme, is it a good thing for the sector and if so, why?
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Yeah, I think it is. We've actually been campaigning
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for it for, I mean years from 2017, the STA has been
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campaigning for registration. We should be registered.
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It makes our job easier. I mean, I had a conversation
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with a local council, I should remain unnamed, but a local
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council a while ago where they were insistent that there were
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6000 holiday let's in their town.
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Myself and the property manager who was assisting us in in there
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in that town had the data that showed that there were less than
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2000, There were about 1800. But the council believed they
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were right. We knew we were right.
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We knew what they were doing was looking at the entire county,
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not the actual town. But because we didn't have that
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definite data source, they can use facts to back up the
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argument that they want. And the argument that this
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council wanted is it's not our fault that there aren't enough
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houses being built. It's short term lettings fault
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there aren't enough houses. Now we know that's not true, but
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without that registration scheme, without that hard data,
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it's hard to justify and get them to change their minds.
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So that's one of the really good things.
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It's also going to help that we're going to know as an
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industry how many people are doing our running holiday let's
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in town A, town B, town C. So we can then reach out and we
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can help them and we can try to improve standards and we can
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improve our industry. If we know that we are, you
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know, let's say we're going to Portsmouth next year with the
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Host Planet Roadshow. If we knew there were, I don't
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know, 1000 short term let's in in Portsmouth, then we can
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contact them, we can talk to them, we can get them to come
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along to our educational sessions with Host Planet and
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that will improve our industry because at the end of the day,
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what we all want, we all work in tourism.
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We want people to have a good time.
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We want our industry to be better.
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I know that our industry is one of the best in the world and we
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need to get make sure that everybody's on that path to get
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their part of the business to be the best in the world and we
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will all do better. For the hosts and property
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managers out there who were a bit worried about registration,
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what are they going to have to provide?
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What's the info they're going to have to give to be part of this
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scheme? Yeah, we don't know is the
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honest answer to that. We're still in the process of
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working with the government to make sure that it's easy to use.
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We've been advocating for many years for a light touch, easy to
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use registration scheme. It's vital that this scheme is
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simple, doesn't require onerous details to be uploaded all over
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the place, and we are still working with that.
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If anybody has any inputs, anything they want to add in,
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they are more than welcome to e-mail us.
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We sent out a survey yesterday to all of our members and to
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everyone who's been to the Short Stay Summit asking them for
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their opinions because that's going to be fed back into DCMS.
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Encourage anybody to reply to that.
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If you didn't get that e-mail for any reason, you're more than
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welcome to e-mail and into info@uksdaa.org with any inputs
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that you've got into the registration scheme.
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At the moment, the government is listening to us and they're
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willing to work with us. In a few months time we'll be
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past that window. So if you have any inputs, I'd
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encourage anybody just send it in.
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We'll send it on to them. I can't promise you the
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government will listen, but I can promise you we'll we'll put
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it in front of them. We'll put that e-mail address in
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the show notes. OK, then.
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That's statutory registration. What else is on the agenda for
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the next year or so in terms of regulation?
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In terms of regulation, the government's constantly talking
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about planning. We've got the one in two days
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issues in Wales. What we are trying to ensure is
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that the government doesn't put day limit caps on our industry,
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that the government understands that that we don't have planning
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issues in our industry and we can only do that if we get the
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government to understand the benefits of our industry.
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And that feeds back to what we've said earlier on about
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getting in front of people and talking to them about the
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positive value of tourism. When they understand the
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positive value of of what we're doing as As for tourism and what
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we're doing for our local communities and the local
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villages, people stop trying to put these onerous rules and
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regulations on us because they understand that short term
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rentals are the economic driver across our rural and coastal
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communities. We've got to get them to
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understand that if we don't get out there and get in front of
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people, get in front of not just MPs.
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One of the key things is to get in front of counsellors and we
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encourage all of the members, anybody who's a short term
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rental host, to get in contact with your counsellor.
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We can help you with the letters, with the contacts, we
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can help you with getting in front of people.
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But talk to your local councillor, talk to them about
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what you do. Just send them an e-mail, ask
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them to come and see you in your business.
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I would like to show you around my short term rental business
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and talk to you about how many people stay with me.
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Talk to them about it. If you haven't talked to them
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and you haven't explained to them, they can't know.
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When you talk to them and explain to your local
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councillor, this is what I do, this is the benefits, they
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understand and that's one of the key things that we've got to get
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this change and it's something that we'll be talking about at
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the host. Planet Rd. shows that each of
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the hosts out there, everyone who runs their own business out
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there, works in short term rentals, is an ambassador for
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our industry. We don't have hundreds of people
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working in policy and lobbying in our industry like some other
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sectors do. We haven't got the resources to
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do that. But what we do have is hundreds
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of passionate people who run their own businesses, who love
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their businesses, who love what they're doing, and we've got to
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get that out there to these politicians and make them see
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and understand it. I'm sure there'll be house and
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property managers out there thinking of this.
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This really strikes a chord with me.
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I'd love to help more. Maybe they've already spoken to
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their local MP and councillor. If they do want to help more and
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maybe support the STAA, what are the benefits of doing that and
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and how can they do that? Yeah, the benefit of doing it,
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obviously we would, Anybody can speak to any, any counsellor
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they want. We would encourage hosts to drop
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us an e-mail 1st and we'll help them with that contact. .1 of
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the important things that we need to do as a sector is to
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work together. Everyone's business has
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different things and we have businesses that compete with us.
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We have businesses in our local communities that, you know that
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there are competition for this, that and the other.
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I understand that, but the one thing that we all have in common
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is the regulatory environment. What is good for for business A
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is good for business B. There is never going to be a law
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passed that says short term rental business A in store on
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the world is going to have this regulatory environment and short
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term rental business B in store on the world isn't That isn't
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going to happen. We all get the same.
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So we've all got to work together on this.
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Working together makes our voice stronger and we encourage any
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host to want to get in contact with the councillor, MP, drop us
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an e-mail, we'll find out who the person is you need to speak
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to. We'll find out what they've said
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about, you know, short term rentals.
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We can give you a little bit of information on it and then we
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can send you a pro forma e-mail that we'll send over because
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we're the national voice of the sector.
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We're the only association that works across all of the home
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nations. We can use that advantage to get
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that voice out there and make sure that they understand that,
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yes, Host A is a small local operator working in his
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community, but he's also part of this bigger ecosystem.
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He is a part of this organization and this this group
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with hundreds and hundreds of other people working together
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for the same goal. And that has impact with
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politicians. And if people want to join the
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SDAA, where do they go? How much does it cost?
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If they can go to a website it can cost you from as little as
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£15 a month to be a member of the SCAA.
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We would encourage anybody to to join if you can.
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If you can't join for any reason, drop an e-mail, let me
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know and we'll sort something out.
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We are here for the whole sector.
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We've got members from the large platforms, from
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airbnbexpediabooking.com to large property managers like
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sites, cottages, etcetera, and then down to individual hosts.
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We try to ensure that we never make anything that people can't.
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You know, there's never a reason why somebody can't join.
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So please join. If you have any issues with it,
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drop me an e-mail and we'll sort something out for you.
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You can e-mail into the info@uksdaa.org e-mail address.
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Anybody who's listening to this. Yes, please join.
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Support us, come to the the host Planet Rd.
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Shows next year. Meet us and you'll see what we
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can do for your sector, for your, for your business.
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Superb. OK then Andy, a couple of
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questions to finish. We like to do a shout out.
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Is there an individual in the industry you'd like to give a
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shout out to and why? An individual in in our sector
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is really, it's difficult because there are so many people
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in our sector because there are so many people running their own
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small businesses that are really passionate about them.
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I think at the moment the person who who goes over and above on
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everything is Diane Lloyd, who's running our events.
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She is the driving force behind the short stay Summit, managed
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to turn the short stay Summit into this amazing thing that
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it's now, you know, 1300 people come from all over the world and
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turn up. And one of the things I'm always
23:51
surprised by is Diane and I will will sit in the mornings and
23:55
we'll work through the emails that have come in and people
23:58
will e-mail in to to Diane. And then if they don't get the
24:02
response they want, if company A wants to pay for this, we'll pay
24:06
for that. One of the things that we never
24:08
do at the summit is allow people to sponsor to get on stage.
24:13
The people on stage, they don't have to sponsor.
24:16
They can be anybody. We have made sure that we have
24:20
people on that stage who are start up businesses, new
24:23
businesses, small businesses. Everyone has a level playing
24:28
field. One of the things that we do at
24:30
the summit, if you've ever been, is all of the stands have light
24:34
boxes that we build for them. We don't have pull up banners
24:38
and things in the room. And the reason why we do that is
24:41
that if you are a small business with one person working there or
24:45
you're a big business with 50 or 100, you all look the same.
24:49
He gives everyone a fair level playing field.
24:53
So one of the things that always amazes me is when people do
24:55
e-mail in sometimes and say, you know, oh, if I sponsor this, can
24:58
I go on stage and we say Diane or say hello?
25:00
I said no. And then you'll get an e-mail
25:03
into the info app e-mail address 10 minutes later, or you'll get
25:06
an e-mail into the speakers at or this that or the other e-mail
25:10
addresses at at the summit. Because people assume that
25:13
something as successful as the summit has this huge team
25:16
running it, but it doesn't. All of the e-mail addresses are
25:19
coming in to Diane for me. There's nobody else there.
25:22
And that's something that I think is amazing, that because
25:25
of the passion and love that people have for our sector,
25:28
you've got people like Diane who are running this event.
25:32
But most people suggest that the summit should have a team of 20
25:35
running it. And it's got a team of one.
25:38
We're about to start working on on other regional events with
25:42
the SDA. And it's exactly the same thing.
25:44
And it'll be the same thing with the host planet Roadshows, that
25:48
everyone people will be there and they will assume that it's
25:51
had. And I think that's great.
25:53
And it's one of those amazing things that people like Diane do
25:57
for our sector because of the passion that people have because
26:00
we are running these small businesses and people love them.
26:04
That is infectious. It rubs off on other people and
26:07
we all go the extra mile to make our industry what it is.
26:10
This amazing community of hundreds and hundreds of small
26:14
business owners all working together effectively to make
26:18
sure people have fantastic holidays.
26:20
Absolutely. Great shout out there for Diane.
26:22
And yeah, if you've ever been to the short stay summit, as I have
26:25
a couple of times, it is an outstanding event, one of the
26:30
best in Europe. That's what somebody described
26:32
it to me. In fact, they said it was the
26:33
best in Europe. That was the description.
26:36
It was, I was, I was given the last time I went and yeah, it
26:39
was. And the the last event in April
26:40
was superb. And the, the roadshow event that
26:43
we're doing next year is actually the day after the
26:45
summit. So come down to London, get
26:48
yourself along to the short stay summit and then pop into the the
26:50
Roadshow event as well. Going to be well worth coming
26:53
along to. Finally then, Andy, what's one
26:57
thing that every listener could do today to help protect and
27:01
grow the UKSTR industry? The one thing you could do a is
27:09
I mean it it. It sounds corny but join the
27:12
SDAA. Book your tickets to the host
27:15
Planet Rd. shows. Get that knowledge, get that
27:17
education, get that sharing of best practice in our industry.
27:23
We really need to do it. One of the real positives of our
27:26
industry is that we are these small businesses full of really
27:29
passionate owners. It's also one of the negatives
27:32
of our industry that we're out there dispersed across the
27:35
country. We don't have, we're not like
27:38
some of these large hotel companies.
27:40
We don't have a massive headquarters for short term
27:43
rentals UK where we all turn up in the morning and we all,
27:46
there's thousands of us, there are thousands of us, but we're
27:49
out there in Caerphilly in Edinburgh and still on the world
27:52
and Borton on the water and we're not talking to each other.
27:56
Use groups like the SCAA, get involved.
28:00
Go to the host Planet roadshows, get involved in what James is
28:03
doing there, talk to each other, share ideas for the We may have
28:10
competitors amongst other short term rental businesses, but
28:13
we're not the enemy and we have to remember that no one gets
28:19
anywhere by putting someone else down.
28:21
We need to compete, but we need to talk to each other and share
28:25
our ideas. And that would be the one thing
28:27
I'd encourage everybody to do. And yes, please join us.
28:32
Book your ticket to the host planet roadshows for next year.
28:34
Get the summer season this year out the way.
28:36
It's, you know, hopefully with the weather out there at the
28:39
moment, it's I never thought I'd ever say it being here, but it's
28:42
almost too hot. But hopefully that means we've
28:45
had a really good summer. And let's start 2026 on a real
28:49
flyer. We're coming to these roadshows
28:51
sharing ideas and we if you come, our industry will be
28:55
better off at the end of next year.
28:57
Great message, Andy, pleasure to chat as always.
29:00
Thanks for joining joining us on the Host Planet podcast.
29:03
Thanks for having me, James. Thank you.
29:05
Great to chat to Andy Fenner there from the STAA.
29:07
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