Hey everyone,
I am trying to gather as many people together to push for an end to the extenuating circumstances policy and instead transition that to a travel insurance policy.
Complaining on here will clearly not work, so we need to find ideas about how to put pressure on airbnb and get our message across.
1st, have a clear solution. This part is simple, the extenuating circumstances policy is now an optional insurance policy that the guest can choose and pay for.
2nd, reach out to the media and begin pushing for stories about this solution. There are a lot of articles coming out regarding the hardships host gave and this is great but none are pushing for a solution the NEXT time this happens. I've begun this process and had a few conversations with interested media outlets, more hosts reaching out to these same people would make a difference. But we have to be on the same page!
3rd, perhaps a petition that we can begin gathering signatures and support. I don't put much faith in something like this, but it is probably the only way to gather everyone together and rally.
I am open to ideas, obviously organization is the hardest part.
I also want to make it clear that this group is about 1 issue: changing the extenuating circumstances policy for the future. There are plenty of other groups working on other aspects, and those are important. But this is about changing that policy so it doesn't happen next time.
