Without hosts, there is no short-term rental. We are the ones who open our homes, welcome guests, clean, maintain, invest and take the risks. Platforms connect people; we are the ones who host them.
Platforms cannot exist without us. Their commissions, their very existence, their business model: everything depends on us, a scattered, isolated community with no recourse. For too long they have used that to dictate the rules alone, with only their own interests and those of their shareholders in mind. Enough!
The rules that govern our work change without us. They are decided on the other side of the world, applied everywhere in the same way, and announced in a simple email. Any one of us can protest. On our own, we carry no weight.
Hosts Alliance exists to change that. It is meant to be the voice of hosts, and theirs alone.
Alone, we are ignored. Together, we cannot be.