Healthy Hotels

What Is The Healthy Hotels Program

The Healthy Hotels Program is your way of knowing the property you are staying in takes your health and the hygiene of your room seriously. Do you ever suffer allergies when you travel? Have your children ever woken up with a blocked noses in a hotel room? Perhaps you’ve cursed at the air conditioning for making your eyes sting when the alarm goes off for your early morning meeting?

The common symptoms most travellers will experience in a hotel room whether allergic or not, are due to several factors which can be explained in the below diagram.

Although most hotels take great pride in their cleaning, it’s the sanitising that is missing in more than 90% of accommodation providers around the world today.

Sanitisation is a professional service that is often malpracticed among cleaning companies. To meet Healthy Hotels Certification, a hotel or accommodation provider must engage a service provider who is Healthy Hotels Certified themselves. This means that among a range of criteria, the processes they use are low moisture and employ lab tested and certified anti-allergen treatments that are low toxicity and safe for guests with sensitivities.

Most hotels don’t sanitise their beds or carpets, especially not their pillows or couches.

The only way to ensure you aren’t exposed to the host of toxic contaminants usually found in hotels, is to look for the Healthy Hotels Certified symbol when booking. If you phone the property, ask them “Are you Healthy Hotels Certified?” if the answer is “no” then you can almost be assured the rooms are not being sanitised.

For an accommodation provider to be Healthy Hotels Certified, they must sanitise the furnished items in their rooms including mattresses, pillows and carpets at least twice per year, using a Healthy Hotels Certified service provider.

Whether you are travelling for business, a romantic weekend escape or a fun family holiday, if you want the comfort of knowing you are staying in a property that takes your health and the hygiene of your room seriously, then click here to learn more about the Healthy Hotels Program.

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