How Can Hotels Minimize Pest Control Expenditure?

Pest control plays a significant role in the hospitality industry. Almost every high-end hotel offers utmost cleanliness and hygiene in their premises to put forward a good reputation amongst their staff, customers, and guests. Moreover, they must comply with the rules and regulations laid down by food safety and health norms to offer optimum protection to their guests. Thus, as a hotel owner/ manager, you should understand the relevance of pest control activities on several levels and have qualified professionals carry those out cautiously. 

However, if the pest control expenditure is becoming burdensome for your business, here we have some effective ways for your hotel to minimize pest control expenditure.

Have an integrated pest management policy

Adopting a preventive approach in daily operations is one of the effective ways to ingrain pest control at your hotel. Consider following the IPM (integrated pest management) technique that offers effective and efficient pest control aid with minimum use of toxic chemicals. It is also a safer alternative for customers, staff, and the environment. Listed below are the major components of an IPM program:

• Setting action thresholds
• Monitoring and identifying pests
• Preventing pests
• Identifying the best pest control methods

Monitor your hotel for signs of pests

Ensure to train your staff to recognize the early signs of a pest invasion by making pest monitoring mandatory for everyday operations. This can include:

• Training your room cleaners to inspect common pest signs, such as fleas or bed bugs. 
• Training your maintenance staff to examine the potential places of pest entry and its symptoms.
• Training your kitchen and restaurant staff to keep a close eye on the kitchen, storerooms, food serving areas, and waste bins to find the signs of pest activity.

Such regular scrutiny of pest activities with the assistance of a professional expert will help you carry out early intervention to eliminate the risk of pest invasion or growth.

Prioritize pest prevention

Another practical way to prevent pests is not to attract them in the first place. Since all pests look for shelter and food, consider following some pest prevention measures to make your hotel unwelcoming to pests. These can include:

• Incorporating food hygiene practices and appropriate disposal of waste.
• Ceasing their accessibility to the hotel premises.
• Establishing suitable lighting, heating, drainage, and ventilation.
• Ensuring proper maintenance and integrity of other building structures, such as doors, windows, roofs, gutters, pipes, and cables.

Listen to customers

Use professional pest control services

Always hire reputable and well-experienced pest control professionals to carry out your hotel’s pest control activities. This will help you ensure quality services at justified prices. A qualified professional pest control service will offer you several benefits, such as:

• Help you establish a robust IPM strategy
• Minimize the need to undertake expensive pest control measures
• Offer unique preventive measures customized as per the needs and requirements of your hotel
• Offer accurate reporting and records of pest activity.

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