Protecting Corporate Travelers at Hotels Beyond Covid Risks

After spending most of 2020 disinfecting, scrubbing and cleaning, hotels are now being urged to show their security credentials are just as spotless. Company travel managers say they’re more likely to do business with properties that can help them comply with a new global risk benchmarking standard, which will be the first of its kind for corporate travel when published in the summer. It also stands to help them fend off potential litigation. ISO 31030 Risk Management — Managing Travel Risks is being developed by the International Organization for Standardization, a worldwide federation of 82 national standards bodies. The upcoming release comes as the hospitality industry is warned that it is suffering from "Covid myopia" — where all other threats are given less priority in favor of Covid-19, according to International SOS. The pandemic is apparently preventing a holistic approach to health and security risk management. The risk level to the global workforce has also