How Hotels Across The World Are Keeping Guests And Staff Safe From COVID-19

Going beyond just cleaning, sanitising and following the basic hotel safety tips for employees, most of the well-known and reputed hotel chains have started to collaborate with various health and safety organisations that either offer hospital-grade deep cleaning, disinfecting and sanitising services or design a highest level health and safety program and train the staff to follow the protocols that protect the guests and staff from COVID-19 / Coronavirus and take their hotel safety during the COVID19 to a more effective level.

Marriott’s ‘Marriott Global Cleanliness Council’, Hilton’s ‘Hilton CleanStay with Lysol Protection’ and Trident Hotel’s collaboration with Bureau Veritas are few of many such initiatives that the hotels are taking to offer maximum protection to their guests and staff and keep them safe from COVID-19 / Coronavirus.

Leaving no room for doubts, hotels are procuring various certifications issued by one-of-the most reputed health and safety organisations of their respective countries that not only reflects their commitment towards maintaining hotel safety during the COVID19 and creating an extremely safe and healthy environment in their hotel, but also helps them win the trust and confidence on their guests and staff.

Along with following the required hotel safety tips for guests, The Federation of Hotel & Restaurant Associations Of India (FHRAI)’s ‘Food Safety Training and Certification’ programme, Singapore’s SG Clean Certification, Clean & Safe Malaysia, Stay Safe and AAA Diamond Program are a few examples of health and safety certifications across the world that you can try to look for when choosing a hotel for your stay during the COVID-19 / Coronavirus.

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As social distancing is one of the most crucial means to prevent the COVID-19/Coronavirus from spreading, the hotels across the world are adapting to various ways to minimise the contact between the staff and guests.

Right from automated entrances and keyless entries to eliminating the traditional room service and limiting the number of bookings and restaurant services, hotels are taking several measures to maintain the social distancing and keep the guests and staff safe from COVID-19.

As per the global health and safety norms, a N-95 Mask and a pair of gloves are now a part of the uniform for each and every staff member at almost all the hotels across the world alongwith other essential PPE gear. Some staff members, particularly the ones working in the spa, service, cleaning and medical department who are prone to come in close contact with the guests or suppliers mandatorily have to wear a PPE Suit as it ensures extended protection from COVID-19.

While it is compulsory for the staff to wear their masks and gloves during their entire duty time, even the guests are given masks and gloves upon their arrival, which they need to wear every time they step out of their rooms.

As technology makes everything easier, hotels across the world have started to innovate and use various technologies that make the entire management process easy, efficient and effective. Digital check-in and check-out is being initiated at many hotels to skip the front desk contact, robots and AI-driven gadgets are used to manage and serve the guests, UV cleaning and germ detection is used to ensure extra protection, mobile applications, e room seals and e room keys are use to minimise the used of the high-touch areas. Electrostatic sprayers are used to spray disinfectant in public areas of the hotels.

Though, it’s always recommended to stay home to increase your safety from COVID-19 / Coronavirus. But if in case you need to travel after the lockdown for your business or personal reasons, please ensure that you check-in to a hotel that offers you all the safety features that are mentioned above to keep yourself safe from COVID-19 / Coronavirus.

As a resource, we've provided information about a wide variety of hotel cleanliness initiatives that are being followed by some of the leading chains of hotels. Following the list you can read our summary of what some of the biggest players — and earliest adopters are doing.

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