Hospitality heavyweights are pushing back against newly enacted hotel-cleaning ordinances in San Francisco and Las Vegas, with daily housekeeping protocols emerging as a key flashpoint in both cities.

Tanya Varevskaya is one busy housekeeper. "Our procedures have changed a little bit since COVID-19," she says. "Remotes, telephones, coffee makers. Everything we disinfect." It’s her job to sanitize ...

In the 1997 romantic comedy As Good as It Gets, an early-on indicator of Jack Nicholson's character's eccentricity comes into focus as he sits down at the café where he is a regular and unpacks his ...

More than a hundred hotel workers and their supporters marched on a grey day last February, wearing bright red knit hats and carrying signs with a message: CLEAN HOTEL ROOMS SAVE JOBS. In the tourism ...

A woman on TikTok has sparked a debate that many people didn't even know existed. When traveling, she likes to make sure that her hotel room is clean — I'm sure no one would disagree that a clean ...

The pandemic put a pause on many hotels’ guaranteed once-a-day cleanings. Now many of them are making the change permanent, even saying guests prefer it. By Danielle Braff Stephanie VanDerSchie ...

It's almost impossible to find a hotel that hasn't introduced a new sanitation program, promising its rooms are squeaky clean and will be coronavirus-free. How do you know if your hotel room is really ...

First of all, let's just start out by saying that not every hotel room is secretly swarming with skin cells of past guests, E. coli, and/or unidentified bodily fluids. Every hotel has different ...