
Reviewing and improving your cleaning practices and standards isn’t optional if you want to appeal to guests in a post-COVID-19 world. In our last article, we zoomed in on the distinction between cleaning, sanitisation and disinfecting. They are not the same thing, even though the words seem to get used interchangeably. Let’s take a second to recap on what each means.
- Cleaning a surface removes visible debris, dirt and dust
- Sanitising a surface makes that surface free of visible dirt contaminants which could affect your health. It is meant to reduce the occurrence of bacteria, viruses and fungi
- Disinfecting a surface kills microscopic organisms.
So there’s an extra step in the cleaning process that all hoteliers should be considering, and that’s disinfecting the room.
In part 1, we also looked at some of the tech that can help you reach the levels of disinfection needed. So how do you narrow down which method you should invest in?