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Hotel Booking Fraud Increasing. What You Can Do

by Mark Dauner in Lodging. Posted August 3, 2015

Vacation travelers are always on the hunt for the best deal – particularly when it comes to hotels. For business travelers, the concept of open booking has been very popular in the last few years as travelers look to make choices outside of their company’s traditional managed travel program. With the prevalence of mobile online ...

Clamping Down on “Apartment-Sharing” Website AirBNB

by Malcolm Seymour in Lodging, Travel. Posted August 3, 2015

New York State Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, has made waves in recent months by subpoenaing the popular “apartment-sharing” website AirBNB for information on more than 15,000 of the website’s hosts in New York City. The subpoenas were issued as part of Schneiderman’s campaign to enforce a 2010 New York law that took effect last year, clamping down ...

Dear Guest, How Did You Sleep?

by Osvaldo Torres Cruz in Lodging. Posted August 3, 2015

Since prehistoric times human beings have moved towards other geographical areas for commercial purposes and exchange, for which they needed shelters to stay with the primary objective of resting. This need gave rise to establishments which were the precursors of hotels. Rest is a vital human need that replenishes and recharges the human battery. The ...

Unusual and Inexpensive Energy-Saving Tactics for Hotels

by Phil Sprague in Lodging. Posted August 3, 2015

Over the years, facility hotel and building managers have introduced many different and unusual methods for saving energy. Some were extremely expensive, while others were more or less just common sense. Some ideas that have been suggested in the marketplace could literally be characterized as outright fraud, where salespeople espouse that their magic black box ...

Lessons Learned From a Hotel Data Breach

by Dick Hudak in Lodging, Safety & Security, Technology. Posted July 31, 2015

The criminals were good. They almost got away with the most elaborate data breach and identity theft scam I’d seen in all my years as an FBI agent and hotel security director. The victim was a nationally branded hotel in Annapolis, Maryland. A gang of thieves from Baltimore infiltrated the hotel in 2004. An associate ...

Reconciling Airbnb with Duty of Care for Corporate Travel

by admin in Lodging, Safety & Security, Travel. Posted July 31, 2015

Worldwide phenomenon Airbnb (and others like VRBO and HomeAway), the website that allows people to rent out lodging spaces (typically privately-owned residences), has established itself as a disruptive force in the hospitality industry. It allows travelers to enjoy unprecedented flexibility at substantially reduced costs, and via a proven profile rating system has earned itself a ...

N.fowleri Infections Update

by admin in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Lodging, Safety & Security, Travel. Posted July 31, 2015

Naegleria fowleri is an amoeba common to warm bodies of fresh water, including lakes and unchlorinated or poorly chlorinated swimming pools. This amoeba can infect the human nervous system and induce a lethal form of encephalitis when a victim insufflates contaminated water deep into the nasal cavities; while infection is relatively rare, only one percent ...

Security Reminders for the Fall From the Institute for Security Executives

by Tom Winn in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Lodging, Safety & Security. Posted July 31, 2015

Summer is coming to an end, and with that change of season come many things that deserve some security and safety reminders. Primarily, school and work schedules will return to more predictable patterns. Allow a little more time to go to work; school zones and buses will be active again. Watch out for those kids ...

Confronting Bed Bug Infestations with a Multi-Treatment Protocol

by John Barcay in Lodging. Posted July 31, 2015

Co-authored by Joelle Olson Sixty years ago, bed bugs were eradicated from the U.S., largely due to the use of DDT, a once common and very potent insecticide. Since DDT was banned by the EPA in 1972, bed bugs have reemerged. Their populations are again flourishing due to increased domestic and foreign travel and discontinuation of older, ...

Five Ways Your Safety at Hotels Can Be Compromised

by Hotel Chatter in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Lodging, Safety & Security. Posted July 31, 2015

There are certain, reasonable expectations we have when paying for a hotel room, such as a good night’s sleep, clean sheets, decent water pressure and the assurance that no one is going to break into our hotel room and make off with our iPods, laptops, wallets or jewelry. But we’ve seen Ocean’s 11 and 12 ...

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