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The pandemic devastated the hospitality industry in 2020, halting business and leisure travel to destinations around the world. This year however, 2021 is poised to be a year of strong and steady growth for hotels as millions of people seek to travel once again. We are committed to supporting hospitality's recovery by re-launching The Hotel Bed Bug Authority, your quarterly guide to preventing bed bugs in the hotel industry.

This month’s edition of The Hotel Bed Bug Authority seeks to identify the risk bed bugs present to the recovering hospitality and travel market. A bed bug - guest encounter detailed in a subsequent social media post can harm a brand when travelers are researching their long-delayed travels. In addition, we will discuss a recent survey conducted through Hotel Business on how hoteliers view bed bugs and their impact on their industry.

Allergy Technologies recently conducted a survey in conjunction with Hotel Business on bed bugs, exploring their impact on day-to-day operations to budgeting and cost allocation. Although we learned a tremendous amount through the 14 question survey, two key takeaways stand out:

Bed bug remediation is simply no longer enough for the vast majority of hoteliers. Prevention is the preferred strategy to protect brand reputation, reduce legal liability, enhance guest confidence, protect stakeholder equity, and increase hotel revenue.
Hoteliers largely do not have a single line item on their P&Ls that directly address the overall cost of a bed bug incident. In order to best understand how much of an impact bed bugs truly have on your property, bed bug related-costs should be ideally captured on a single line item. These costs include remediation, discarded soft-goods, lost room revenue as well as any bed bug-related compensation given to a guest.

As the hospitality industry experiences gradually improving occupancy rates and revenues reach pre-pandemic levels, embracing bed bug prevention will make a significant difference in a hotel’s path towards recovery.

Hotel Bed Bug Survey Results - Video Recap

We asked hoteliers about how they address the scourge of bed bugs, from operations and cost allocation to prevention and remediation. Click here to watch Allergy Technologies' President Joseph Latino discuss the survey results and the overall industry outlook with Allen Rolleri, VP of Business Development at Hotel Business.

Expert Insight: Don’t lose guest confidence now!

In November of 2020, Joseph Latino spoke with Allen Rolleri on what really happens to a hotel when there is a “bed bug-guest encounter.” Remember, there is more to a bed bug incident than just the cost of remediation! Click here to watch the video.

Rentokil PROTECT+

One of the most significant advancements in bed bug prevention during the pandemic has been the introduction of Rentokil’s Protect+ System for long term bed bug control. The system offers three packages, two of which include the use of “activated box spring liners” for ongoing 24/7 protection. This package from Rentokil represents the emerging shift from reactive bed bug treatments to prevention by a national/international leader in pest control. Click here for more details.

Allergy Technologies is now an Endorsed Supplier for Best Western Supply and Design

Allergy Technologies is proud to announce its expansion in hospitality by recently becoming an Endorsed Supplier for Best Western Supply and Design. This partnership provides Best Western hotels access to the top tool for bed bug prevention, ActiveGuard Mattress Liners.

For additional information or for help ordering for Best Western affiliated hoteliers, please contact us at info@hotelbedbugprevention.com.

ActiveGuard Mattress Liners are covered under U.S. Patents 5,916,580, 6,214,365, 6,440,438 and pending patents. ActiveGuard's formulation represents a unique and proprietary delivery system that offers sustained bioavailability of permethrin for two years. Allergy Technologies is a subsidiary of A. Carey Co. LLC, which focuses on using philanthropy as a core business strategy for its businesses. Through its Philanprofit (SM) strategy, a portion of all ActiveGuard proceeds go to help fund inner-city homeless and women's shelters and asthma clinics.

ActiveGuard Mattress Liners kill bed bugs. Published research supports that after short exposure to ActiveGuard of only 10 min, bed bugs regardless of their level of resistance, begin to show significant reductions in feeding (biting) and a dramatic inability to lay eggs. Real world consequences of this data include discontinuation of population growth thereby preventing progression of an incident to an infestation.

If you are seeking a pro-active preventative approach, ActiveGuard should be considered as the centerpiece of your long term solution to keep from being infested! As part of a comprehensive strategy for treating an active bed bug infestation, ActiveGuard is an excellent choice for use as the final step in treating the mattress and box spring sleeping area. These liners' two-year ability to keep on killing bed bugs provides for continual prevention and control against any adult bed bugs, nymphs or eggs missed during initial treatment and any bed bugs re-introduced after treatment has been concluded.

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