Dirty laundry from hotel chains is hung out, sector in shock: “Every room that is not in order is one too many!”

The larger the hotel, the shorter the cleaning time that chambermaids can spend on each room. It appears from a report now that the TV program ‘Factcheckers’ (Eén) showed that the ‘housekeeping’ at Belgian hotel chains leaves a lot to be desired, right down to fresh towels and bed linen. Negligence in which time pressure undoubtedly plays a major role: “Where a full-time chambermaid in a small hotel cleans an average of 9 rooms a day, in a large hotel that is already an average of 17 rooms a day”, says Guidea, the Flemish knowledge center for the hospitality industry. .

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