Explore the latest news, press releases, and media coverage of TrustedStays.
10 July 2025
In 2024, the UK short-term rental industry saw a shift: a new national register, new planning requirements, and growing pressure to prove it could be trusted. For many operators, this marked a turning point.
24 June 2025
When Merilee Karr co-founded the Short Term Accommodation Association (STAA) in the UK in 2017, she kept hearing the same frustrating refrain from government leaders and traditional hospitality groups: short-term rentals had no standards.
24 Oct 2024
Resident hosting has matured to the point that not offering options for tenants around length of stay now poses a risk to Build to Rent (BTR) long-term rental portfolios…
25 April 2024
UK: Industry-wide short-term rental booking platform TrustedStays has launched the TrustedStays Guest Referral Network, a lead-sharing initiative designed to reshape business dynamics within the sector…
18 Dec 2023
Under the Doormat Group, the driving force behind TrustedStays, have announced a merger that strengthens the provision of short-term rentals. Veeve and UnderTheDoormat Group have merged to create one of Europe’s largest and most dynamic end-to-end short term rental businesses, positioning it for future expansion…
18 October 2023
Katanox, the travel accommodation distribution and fintech platform, announced today its deal with short-term accommodation provider TrustedStays…
18 October 2023
Amsterdam-based accommodation distribution and fintech platform Katanox is partnering with TrustedStays to provide a new distribution option for the United Kingdom-based short-term accommodation provider…
17 October 2023
With Katanox's disribution capabilities TrustedStays can channel B2B supply and demand. Amsterdam-based travel accommodation distribution and fintech platform Katanox has announced its deal with short-term accommodation provider TrustedStays…
2 August 2023
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 claim a five per cent share of the corporate business travel market, which is worth up to $8 billion worldwide and £235 million in the UK alone, according to the Global Business Travel Association [GBTA]…
28 April 2023
The TrustedStays industry booking platform for professional short-term rentals has launched on the Global Distribution System (GDS). Amongst the first properties are Canary Wharf Group’s Vertus developments, expanding accommodation choice and flexibility for the corporate and relocation markets…
27 April 2023
UK-based Canary Wharf, a residential and commercial property company, and TrustedStays will offer individual apartment inventory on global distribution system, Amadeus…
9 Oct 2022
The TrustedStays short-term rental booking platform will connect with Amadeus to expand accommodation choice, flexibility for the corporate and “bleisure” segment…
4 October 2022
API connection the Global Distribution System will 'give customers more choice and flexibility when it comes to choosing accommodation that best fits their needs'…
4 October 2022
Originally set up during the pandemic to help nurses book and stay in homes, rather than hotels, TrustedStays has now "commercialized" its platform. It potentially opens the door to short-term rental operators that were previously locked out from corporate bookings…
4 October 2022
Global business travel is resuming, with 20m more room nights booked in the first six months of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021, according to Amadeus’ Demand360® data. However, new research shows that the needs of corporate travellers have evolved during this time as a result of hybrid and remote work, to include longer trips and a desire for greater variety of accommodation and services…
13 May 2022
The UK Short Term Accommodation Association (STAA) has appointed a new board of members for 2022/23. Board members were elected from the group’s membership base. For the next financial year, members include…
4 Apr 2022
David Butler (CEO of the UKAA) and Merilee Karr (CEO of TrustedStays and Chair of STAA) meet to discuss the partnership between the UKAA and TrustedStays, a platform that gives supply partners access to the corporate rental market (a $156 billion industry)…
21 February 2022
TrustedStays, the flexible lets booking platform for corporate and Government customers, has announced a new partnership with the UK Apartment Association (UKAA) that will add build to rents into its proposition…
21 February 2022
UK: TrustedStays, a flexible lets booking platform for corporate and government customers, has announced a new partnership with the UK Apartment Association [UKAA] that will add build-to-rent into its proposition…
