Although travel was restricted during the early stages of the COVID pandemic, our own Members were able to step forward to accommodate frontline and essential workers who needed to stay close to work, but isolating to avoid catching or spreading the virus.
Post-pandemic when travel began to return, many more people recognised the benefits of staying in self-contained apartments with kitchens, flexible living spaces and laundry facilities.
But an unintended consequence was that some less ethical landlords sought to cash in on the boom, for instance adding a microwave and a sofa in a studio room and calling it ‘a serviced apartment’.
With no regulation in the short let industry in most countries, not even around fire saftey and carbon monoxide, we feel it should not fall to the customer to take a chance on finding suitable, safe accommodation.
Which is why all Members have signed ASAP’s Code of Conduct which ensures legally operated, professionally managed accommodation, represented honestly, with guest safety and security a given.
