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.

What are the first things you do when you arrive at your new hotel room or Airbnb? Jump on the bed to test its firmness? Unpack your clothes? Check for bedbugs? You may want to add a quick cleaning to ...

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 ...

An Assembly committee took up a bill that would repeal COVID-19 era cleaning standards for hotels, with opponents arguing hotels would no longer clean rooms daily and hotel representatives countering ...

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 ...

IHG, Four Seasons, Omni and Caesars joined the growing list of hospitality companies updating cleanliness measures due to the new coronavirus. Short-term rental company Vrbo followed suit, too. IHG, ...

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 ...