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Washington D.C. [USA], Jun 15 : According to a recent study, most business and leisure travellers in the United States can't identify a bed bug, and yet the tiny pest evokes a stronger response in hotel guests than any other potential room deficiency, putting the hospitality industry in a difficult spot.
In the same survey, however, just 35 percent of business travellers and 28 percent of leisure travellers correctly identified a bed bug in a line-up of other common insects.
"Considering all the media attention paid to bed bugs in recent years, the fact that most travellers still have a poor understanding of them is troubling," said co-author Michael Potter.
It is particularly problematic given the central role that online reviews play in travellers' selection of where to stay. More than half of survey respondents said they would be very unlikely to choose a hotel with a single online report of bed bugs.
"From a hotel industry perspective, it's worrisome that a single online report of bed bugs would cause the majority of travellers to book different accommodations, irrespective of whether the report is accurate. Furthermore, the incident could have involved only one or a few rooms, which the hotel previously eradicated," said lead author Jerrod M Penn.
Despite a highly negative impression of bed bugs, more than half (56 percent) of respondents said they either never considered the threat of bed bugs while travelling or considered it but were not worried.
If a hotel were to proactively provide information on the steps it takes to prevent bed bug infestations, 46 percent of respondents said they would stay at the hotel and would appreciate knowing about those measures. The second most common response, however, was "do it, but don't tell me" (24 percent).
An overwhelming majority (80 percent) of respondents said hotels should be required to tell guests if their room has had a prior problem with bed bugs. Among those who wanted such a disclosure, 38 percent of business travellers and 51 percent of leisure travellers said they would want to know of prior infestations going back a least one year or more.
Responses to bed bug concerns were generally consistent across various demographic cross-sections in the survey.
Potter noted that the public's lack of understanding of bed bugs "contributes to their spread throughout society as a whole." But the hospitality industry must deal with both the pest itself and consumers' strong, if ill-informed, attitudes about bed bugs.
The results are soon to be published in American Entomologist.
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