Following are some aspects in place in terms of hotel reopening after Covid:

Local Requirements

Each country has its own requirement and guideline. Different countries allow the opening of hotels in different phases. So first of all you need to check your local administration guideline, in which phase they have a plan to open the hotel industry. How many guests you can entertain, indoor, outdoor restrictions, etc.

Develop consent forms

Once your hotel is reopened, in the first stage you need to develop a consent form. The form will help you to keep a written record of the guest’s medical history, and health and at the same time speed up the screening process. This form will help you to get information about covid-19 vaccinations as well. You can add as many details as required in this form.

Staff screening and temperature checks

Before implementing restrictions on guests, it is very important to make an SOP for your own staff. Each member of staff should pass through screening, maintain social distancing and ensure that temperature has been checked. This will keep both employees and visitors safe from viruses. If during checking found an employee with a temperature, send him home and don’t allow him in the hotel until he is virus negative.

Physical distancing

A major step to take is to maintain physical distancing. Health officials recommend having at least six feet distance between two people and where the setup is large it is more important. Installing a physical barrier can help this where it is difficult to maintain six feet. Posters and signs can also remind employees to maintain physical distance.

Use of Sanitizer

The use of sanitizer makes it easy for the employees. This can be done by assigning everyone a small bottle and putting it in some common places in the hotel.

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Bella hotel in Islamabad also consider all these guidelines and make sure that the environment is virus-free for the guest and employees.

Lockdown during pandemic affects the hotel industry very badly. When officials and companies will not visit the hotels, hotel revenue will narrow down. When there will be no off-site and sale meeting, there will surely be no flights and so forth booking in hotels. Hotel restaurants, meetings, banquets and meeting facilities, gyms were completely restricted. All this affects the hotel revenue at the end of the day.

Some more impact of Covid on Pakistan’s hotel industry

Because of the shutdown of the manufacturing industry in Pakistan, export markets closed, which also negatively affect the hotel industry. Bella hotel has temporarily closed down but has not asked any of our employees to leave permanently. We paid our employees during the pandemic. To minimize the variable cost we asked our non-essential staff to stay at home and only essential staff called to maintain the cleanness of the hotel and ensure that they have no exposure to the coronavirus.

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Due to covid-19, similar to other sectors, the hotel industry also has to change the procedure with regards to guests and staff. Following are some areas we have put efforts: –

Vigorous cleaning of public touch areas

Protection of hotel staff members

Minimum staff interaction at gate

More checking of incoming people

Elimination of some guest contact points to minimize interaction

Removal of amenities in rooms to reduce touchpoints.

Realignment of meeting points to maintain social distancing

The hotels or guest houses clients are mostly from the business industry and we did our utmost effort to implement the contact protocols in true letter and spirit. We will continue our efforts to implement the international standards in the Pakistani environment. The hospitality industry is one of the few which actually implement Covid-19 SOPs correctly.