COVID-19 Related Lawsuits + Hospitality Law + Liabilities Remain + CDC Guidance + Human Trafficking

That the hospitality industry has been one of the hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic is obvious. The travel and business shutdowns’ devastation, only now easing somewhat with the partial and complete reopening of some parts of the world, is well known. What is perhaps less obvious are the pandemic’s legal repercussions as businesses and individuals file related lawsuits.

Analyzing legal filings affecting the business operations of hotels and restaurants will help us understand the liabilities, protection tools and techniques, and ways to be better protected from such calamities in the future.

While it is early to draw firm conclusions, an analysis of lawsuits filed in 2020 and early 2021 indicates...

Key Factors in the Industry’s Fight Against Human Trafficking

April 24, 2021 via Hotel Management

As the prevalence of human trafficking has become common knowledge in the past couple of years, the pertinent question is: Why have hotels become so vulnerable to these crimes? Aside from offering a space in which the guest retains legitimate expectations of privacy, the automation of hotel operations has made it much more difficult for hotel employees and representatives to spot and report potential human trafficking victims and their perpetrators. Automated hotel check-ins/check-outs, online reservation systems and do not disturb signs all limit interaction between hotel staff members and guests—thereby curtailing potential points of identification and intervention. So, in an age of anonymity and automation, how does a hotel work to both combat human trafficking and insulate itself from any potential criminal or civil liability?