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02 Jul Global Secure Accreditation launches ‘COVID-19 Certificate of International Good Practice’ in partnership with Collinson

Posted at 09:00h in NEWS

Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of guests, visitors, and staff is an essential part of operating any hotel. While many hotels have good levels of security, the approach, execution and implementation of policies and practises is not always consistent or proportionate to their risk environment. Measures...

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23 Jun Checking in to a post-COVID world

Posted at 10:33h in NEWS

Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of guests, visitors, and staff is an essential part of operating any hotel. While many hotels have good levels of security, the approach, execution and implementation of policies and practises is not always consistent or proportionate to their risk environment. Measures...

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01 Jun Hotels in a post Covid-19 world

Posted at 06:24h in NEWS

Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of guests, visitors, and staff is an essential part of operating any hotel. While many hotels have good levels of security, the approach, execution and implementation of policies and practises is not always consistent or proportionate to their risk environment. Measures...

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13 Mar How can you make your hotel stand out?

Posted at 14:46h in NEWS

Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of guests, visitors, and staff is an essential part of operating any hotel. While many hotels have good levels of security, the approach, execution and implementation of policies and practises is not always consistent or proportionate to their risk environment. Measures...

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24 Feb Why TMCs should support the advancement of accommodation accreditation

Posted at 15:24h in NEWS

The cost of using a Travel Management Company (TMC) often comes under scrutiny when clients are reviewing the service they receive and the value it adds to its programme.  TMC Management Teams are always looking for new ways to demonstrate the value proposition to clients...

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13 Feb How can we help to tackle modern slavery in the hospitality industry?

Posted at 12:42h in NEWS

In 2016 alone, 3.8 million people were victims of forced sexual exploitation worldwide – with an estimated 110,000 victims of modern slavery in the European hospitality sector ever year. The issue of modern slavery poses a quadruple threat to hotels, from people being trafficked and exploited...

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10 Jan Why do we need a global set of hotel security standards?

Posted at 10:49h in NEWS

GSA’s CEO, Dave Wood, explains the story of Global Secure Accreditation and why he believes a change was needed in the industry. Why was Global Secure Accreditation set up? Every hotel is required to have an audit for food standards, for health and safety standards, and for...

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06 Jan What is SFJ Awards and why is it so important?

Posted at 08:45h in NEWS

It takes a matter of minutes to find out how clean a hotel room is or how close it is to the nearest train station. Yet, the level of security is almost impossible to find. With high profile attacks on hotels in recent years, hotel...

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12 Dec How secure is my Accommodation Programme?

Posted at 13:55h in NEWS

Duty of care remains a top priority for travel managers – with 73 per cent of travel management professionals ranking it as the most important challenge facing the industry. Accommodation choices have the highest potential to be a ‘weak link’ in meeting these duty of...

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02 Dec Cyber-security in the hotel industry

Posted at 16:16h in BLOG, NEWS

The hotel sector has become one of the primary targets for cyber criminals, terrorists and nation state actors. Like many industries, hotels are particularly reliant on technology; using complex network systems to store vast amounts of classified customer data. This is just one of the...

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