Voluntary to Vital: Where UK Short-Term Let Licensing Goes Next

For years, the standards in this sector were voluntary. The good operators chose to meet a higher bar.That's changing. Those basics are becoming the framework everyone works to. Voluntary is becoming vital.And the sector has moved from the margins to a serious part of how this country does tourism.At 12:30 today I'm moderating a panel at SCALE UK on exactly that shift.From Voluntary to Vital: The Future of Short-Term Rental Licensing in the UKI'm joined by three people who've done the work to get us here:→ Fiona Campbell MBE, CEO, Association of Scotland's Self-Caterers → Alistair Handyside MBE, Executive Chair, PASC UK → Janet Uttley, CEO, STAAScotland has already been through licensing, so they've got the experience the rest of us are about to need. England's register still isn't live, which means how it lands is genuinely still open. Operators still have a say in the design.And the case keeps getting stronger. In Scotland, self-catering is 0.8% of the housing stock and adds close to £1bn to the economy. That's the kind of evidence shifting the conversation.What we'll get into:→ What England can learn from Scotland's rollout → What a register that genuinely works for operators looks like → What you can do on Monday morning to get involvedAt SCALE today? Come to the SCALE Stage at 12:30.