Helping Hotels Back To Health

GEZE has launched ‘Helping Hotels Back to Health’ an initiative designed to help our hotel partners to make small but significant changes to their properties, manage cleaning costs, ensure the well-being of their staff and build up a healthy occupancy rate to ensure their continued success.

In creating the initiative GEZE worked with well-known hotel brands to really understand their needs. Each area of a hotel has been looked at, from the entrance and reception area, through corridors and guest rooms and including restaurants and bars, spa and fitness areas, conference rooms and those ‘back of house’ areas so rarely seen by guests.

At the front of the hotel automatic doors provide a prestigious entrance that welcomes guests and visitors without the need for the doors to be touched, a benefit that is both convenient and hygienic. A wide variety of automation options prevents the transmission of bacteria and germs on hands an allowing users to come and go safely even in heavily frequented areas.

Guests pass through a variety of areas in a hotel, from the lobby to corridors to guest rooms and restaurant areas. Fire protection doors and automated door systems equipped with a hold-open function allow guests to pass through with non-contact, barrier-free access – an excellent convenience feature for persons with restricted mobility and for guests with luggage or buggies.

In addition to a hotel's service, the guest room plays a key role in a guest’s impressions of the hotel and how they judge their stay. Innovative door damping ensures quiet closing while autonomous control of fresh air intake improves air quality creating a comfortable atmosphere for a good night’s sleep and a relaxed time.

Providing an inviting, safe and comfortable restaurants and bars adds to the enjoyment and relaxation of guests. Automated window systems controlled by sensors and carefully coordinated building automation provide fresh air. Improved indoor air hygiene not only feels better, it reduces the danger of infection with viruses in hotels and restaurants.

In spas, wellness and fitness areas automatic doors allow users to pass through easily, with no physical contact. This improves hygiene in this area. Pools, saunas, gyms and massage therapy rooms all require high hygienic standards, safety and peace and quiet. We ensure those standards are met through door damping and automatic door systems, combined with access control. This helps hotels meet new societal expectations for health and safety

Hotels are not only popular among holiday travellers – they are also often used for conferences and meetings. GEZE offers fully-developed solutions: door dampers and quiet door drives minimise disruptive background noise; automated windows deliver a good supply of fresh air and improve indoor air hygiene. Glass partition walls with switchable active glass provide direct privacy protection when needed – while also serving as a visual highlight, since they can be used as a projection surface as well.

GEZE offers practical and efficient solutions to facilitate cleaning and work processes and ensure cleaning personnel can do their work properly. Door closers with a hold-open function, for instance, make door stoppers mounted on the floor unnecessary. This makes room hygiene easier, because the floor can be cleaned without obstacles. Ventilation is another good example of where to save time and costs. Opening all doors and windows at once facilitates efficient ventilation.

Most guests never see the ‘back of house’ but this is somewhere GEZE has not overlooked. We offer efficient solutions that help optimise this area - from safe access solutions to non-contact door and window systems with smart networking via building management systems. These allow for central monitoring and control of “back of house” doors, such as office doors for the hotel management or reservations. The building management system can react immediately in case of an alarm, malfunction or manipulation of a door.

Investments in new technology, technical retrofitting and outstanding hygienic safety are investments in the future, to ensure your guests feel comfortable and safe at your facility.

We can even implement highly individualised requirements for door, window and safety technology, as well as building planning and hygiene.

We have touched on just some of the solutions we can offer to help hotel owners manage their hotels easier. The GEZE ‘Helping Hotels Back to Health’ initiative is designed to provide individual solutions for all hotel owners to ensure the well-being of their staff and build up a healthy occupancy rate to ensure their continued success.

For more information about GEZE UK’s comprehensive range of automatic and manual door closers call 01543 443000 or visit www.geze.co.uk