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Your post-pandemic hotel stay, whenever that happens, may feel different as the hospitality industry looks for ways to keep guests protected. Lysol will likely take center stage at your next overnight stay. In fact, the Hilton chain of hotels has partnered with the makers of Lysol and the Mayo Clinic, meaning you’ll probably be seeing more employees disinfecting common areas more frequently. The hotel chain is also trying to find a way to adopt a new social gesture, trading the germ-spreading handshake for a welcoming hand over the heart. Breakfast buffets could be traded for bagged and sealed breakfast items. Instead of making your own waffles at places like Hampton Inn, the hotel will “curate the most popular six or eight items, place them in sealed bags” and encourage you to chow down in your hotel room, according to The L.A. Times. Other changes in the hotel experience? Thermal cameras to take guests and employees temperatures, hotel staff in face masks, hand sanitizer at the ready in rooms and common areas, and text messages to replace face-to-face interaction with hotel staff.
Do any of these possible changes to the hotel experience encourage or discourage you to book a room?
