How Do Hospitality Businesses Handle Bed Bug Pest Control?

Whether you travel for business or pleasure, you may worry about the cleanliness of the places you’ll be staying. You may be concerned about avoiding bed bugs and wondering what hotels and other hospitality-related businesses do to prevent infestations. Today’s blog from Bed Bug Heaters details some of the tactics hotels and other hospitality businesses use for bed bug pest control.

Ways to Ensure Bed Bug Pest Control

The National Pest Management Association (NPMA) has developed guidelines to help the hospitality industry combat bed bugs. Some of those recommendations include:

• Pay attention to guest complaints about bugs or bites.
• Taking a room out of operation for a few weeks will not clear up the bed bugs. Seek the help of an experienced pest control firm instead.
• Develop standard operating procedures for dealing with reports of bed bugs.
• All of the staff should be trained on how to identify bed bugs and ways to prevent and control them.
• Always respond quickly to a bed bug problem. This includes taking care of the guest, taking the room out of service, and contacting your pest management provider.
• Schedule routine bed bug inspections with pest control professionals to avoid infestations.
  
  
  

Other Strategies to Protect Against Bed Bugs

Sanitation is the primary way hotels handle bed bug pest control. Regular washing of bed linens and cleaning of hotel rooms keep bed bugs from becoming established in an area.

Another way some hotels and other hospitality businesses try to prevent bed bug problems is by using encasements around mattresses and box springs. These products have been tested to keep bed bugs out of your bedding by creating a seal which they cannot penetrate.

Bed Bug Heaters Can Eradicate Bed Bugs

​Even with all of these precautions, a hotel may still have to deal with a bed bug infestation. When that time comes, heat treatments are the easiest, safest, and often the most affordable ways to handle bed bug pest control. Bed Bug Heaters can recommend the best unit for your situation. Our experts can do the job, or you can rent the heaters and do it yourself. We even deliver. Call us at (937) 506-6940 for more information.