The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is a tragedy, affecting the health of hundreds of thousands of people around the world.
As a result of the pandemic, the global tourism market has taken a dramatic hit and many hospitality businesses have faces significantly decreased the demand for businesses.
Statistically, when compared to the previous year, most of the tourist receiving countries like Italy saw the largest drop in hotel occupancy rate as much as 96 percent. At the other hand, over 50 percent haven’t felt safe to travel to a destination and stay at a hotel yet. Moreover, around 18% of the customers will only feel comfortable to travel and stay at a hotel when that destination has very few COVID-19 cases and take most important safety precautions.
So the hospitality businesses have slowly begun and authorities to ease restrictions and welcome the guests.
Hotels using ozone generating during Covid-19
The hotels accept the challenge and use every strategy possible to fight this new battle. They make visible sanitizing efforts such as hand sanitizers, staff wearing masks and gloves, employee training of safety protocols, implementing social distancing, limiting the number of customers served, etc. to come back and increase the occupancy rate.
One of the efforts to combat Covid-19 is applying ozone as disinfecting agent. Researches find that the viruses are susceptible to ozone.
In fact, ozone ecologically is able to degrade and eliminate any polluting or harmful elements such as viruses, molds, insects, spores, harmful chemicals and even smoke without leaving any kind of traces or chemical residues, unpleasant odors or stains on fabrics.
Since one of the strengths of hospitality sector has always been the cleanliness and hygiene of environments, some hotels are investing in the purchase of an ozone generator to disinfect and clean hard-to-reach surfaces and even the least accessible cracks. It can be used to sanitize carpets, curtains, mattresses, sofas, armchairs, and even other textiles require less cleaning. After disinfection, the remaining ozone is converted to harmless oxygen.
Due to high oxidizing power of ozone, sanitizing objects and environments make the guests safe and protected. The air is cleaned and the room is ready to be used by a new guest.
Increasing the occupancy rate by use of ozone
As mentioned before, it is equally important to combat the virus both inside the human body as well as in the environment.
Ozone is ideal for use in hotel and public indoors. Using this gas, with the potential to sterilize environments quickly and effectively, the hotels can invest in purchasing ozone generators for the sanitization of the rooms and the common areas.
It is a cost-effective and user-friendly device to reduce and eliminate microbial contaminants, maintaining high indoor air quality and increasing the safety of staff and guests, and also treatment can be repeated as often as needed.
Thanks to this device, the hospitality business is expected to make substantial changes to their hygiene protocol in the COVID-19 and ensure employees’ and customers’ health, safety and satisfaction.
The fact that the room is bacteria and viruses-free also enhances the well-being of newly arrived guests. The guests will enjoy a safe stay.