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UK Chancellor extends business rate discounts for hospitality
Reading Time: 3 minutesUK: UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced that the 75 per cent discount on business rates [up to £110,000] for businesses in the hospitality, leisure and retail sectors has been extended by another 12 months as part of his Autumn Statement.
Airbnb partners with NatWest to boost hosts’ energy efficiency
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Airbnb is partnering with British bank NatWest and Energy Saving Trust to launch a new Sustainable Hosting Hub that will help hosts in the UK retrofit and improve the energy efficiency of their homes.
Brookfield reportedly scraps £4bn-plus Center Parcs sale
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Canadian private equity firm Brookfield has scrapped plans to sell holiday village chain Center Parcs in a £4 billion-plus transaction due to high interest rates and inflation.
STR platforms sign landmark data-sharing partnership with ONS
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: The UK’s Office for National Statistics [ONS] will soon have access to independently published data on short-term lets listed on Airbnb, Booking.com, and Expedia Group, following a landmark data-sharing agreement between the platforms and ONS.
Sustainable cabin concept Re launches in the UK
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Re, a new concept in sustainable cabin retreats that aims to reinvent the city-to-country mini getaway, has launched in the UK with its first off-grid luxury cabin in St Albans, Hertfordshire.
Emerald Stay buys Ski Verbier Exclusive
Reading Time: 2 minutesSwitzerland: Franco-Swiss high-end, short-term rental property management scale-up Emerald Stay has made its third acquisition in less than a year with the purchase of Cotswolds-based luxury chalet operator Ski Verbier Exclusive.
TrustedStays and Katanox partner to open up supply for corporates
Reading Time: 2 minutesNetherlands / UK: Amsterdam-based travel accommodation distribution and fintech platform, Katanox, has partnered with TrustedStays, an industry booking platform for professional short-term rentals.
Storied Collection opens three historic properties to public
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK & Ireland: Storied Collection, a collection of historic castles and estates across the UK and Ireland, has added three new historic properties to its portfolio and made them open to the public for accommodation for the first time.
Why the STRz Summit is not your typical industry conference
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Paul Stevens, editor of short-term rentals at International Hospitality Media, explains why you should attend the first STRz Summit in London on Wednesday 18 October.
Over 370k homes unbuilt in Scotland as crackdown begins
Reading Time: 2 minutesScotland: While the holiday let industry is blamed for the housing crisis, prompting a nationwide clampdown, a pipeline of more than 370,000 homes across Scotland remains unbuilt, new research has revealed.