Advantage Travel Partnership and WIN Global Travel Network member TMCs are to gain access to a wider range of serviced apartments after they signed a new partnership with the Association of Serviced Apartment Providers (ASAP).
The deal will see ASAP’s serviced apartments added to Advantage and WIN’s Global Accommodation Programme – 2021 which will give TMCs access to accredited apartments that are "safe, secure and meet infection control hygiene standards".
Leigh Cowlishaw, global supplier partnership director at Advantage, said: “Our partnership with ASAP is further confirmation of our continued focus on duty of care, safety and security for guests and travellers. Increasingly we all want assurances and to ensure that our wellbeing is considered and agreed protocols are being met.
“When we are able to travel again and stay away from the safety of our own homes in accommodation providers, selection criteria must feature such standards to ensure that we feel safe.”
James Foice, CEO of ASAP, added: “Accreditation is one easily recognised way for operators to provide reassurance, and collaboration between like-minded organisations with a similar focus on safety will reinforce this.”