Hotel Owner May 2019 | Page 17

ADVERTORIAL ADVERTORIAL | VALPAS HOTELS Valpas Hotels The new sign of the most trustworthy hoteliers T hanks to a new technology and a revolutionary service concept, Valpas Hotels are introducing a new class of most trustworthy hotels in the world. Hotels that are safe of bed bugs. Customers choose a hotel based on trust. Fifty years ago a big brand name like Hilton did the trick: it provided a mental shortcut for a trustworthy stay. Today, the world is a different place and trustworthiness is driven mostly by other things: online reviews, pictures and visual appearance, overall reputation - and small details in between. However, there’s one thing that has decreased people’s trust over any hotel stay: bed bugs. Bed bugs have spread throughout the world and today everybody knows no place is safe. They come and go on people’s Roni Saari, owner and general manager of Hotel F6, Finland’s #1 hotel on Tripadvisor, was one of the first hoteliers to become a member of Valpas Hotels. belongings, tag along from anywhere where people spend time - an airplane, a cab, an member for their stay now in seven European valpashotels.com to the hotels own website airbnb, a five-star hotel room, or even your cities and travel and sleep there with a peace for more organic bookings. The hotel has also local Apple store - and end up attacking of mind. recently won Hotels.com’s “Loved by Guests people, leaving them both physically and mentally harmed. Today, everybody understands all spaces In doing so, Valpas Hotels eliminates the 2018” by Booking.com, as well as Tripadvisor’s hotels for the benefit of both. “Travellers’ Choice 2019” award. ”We belong to Valpas Hotels because we are open to them. That’s why people cannot fully trust even the best hotels to be safe Award 2019” (9.8/10), “Guest Review Award existing trust gap between travellers and Valpas Hotels work with the best care about our customers. It’s a win-win – both of bed bugs. To compensate this trust gap, hoteliers - members have an average for the hotel and our customers”, says F6’s travellers have changed their behaviour guest rating of 9.0 on Booking.com owner Roni Saari. Guests seem to prefer to book with a during the last few years. Today, 34 % of guests check their beds for bed bugs before Hotels that join the Valpas Hotels member Valpas Hotel member compared to a regular they settle in their hotel room. Further, even network have increased their revenue and hotel: 71% of guests who’ve stayed at a member before booking with a hotel, people read avoided any damage to reputation. Just hotel have a strong preference to book with reviews and if there’s even a mention of a bed like the #1 hotel of Finland on Tripadvisor, another Valpas Hotels member for their next bug review - no matter if it’s true or false - 56 boutique hotel the F6 in Helsinki. stay (98% have a general preference). % choose another hotel. Most importantly, The hotel has an international client base To meet this guest demand, Valpas public concern has reached a point where and has been a member for a year. During Hotels’ goal is to build its global network into any bites inside a hotel room - until otherwise this time, the F6 has been introduced twice all key cities around the world by the end of proven - are thought of as bed bug bites. with bed bugs and both instances have been 2020. That’s why the company for now limits prevented. The old way of finding problems the number of hotels they work with per city remain exposed to incoming bed bugs. Today, and then remediating them is a thing of the or region. Valpas Hotels is launching in the UK with Valpas Hotels, every hotel can be safe. past. Guests are kept safe and rooms clean during Summer 2019. Before, hoteliers haven’t had a choice but to Valpas Hotels is the only company in the world that introduces a new class of most and operational around the clock. The hotel’s 66 rooms have also been Contact Valpas Hotels: trustworthy hotels that are safe of bed bugs. running at higher occupancy and higher Timo Tuomi, Account Executive The company makes existing hotels safe of margins. Valpas Hotels has connected more Tel. +358408380287 bed bugs with their new patented technology. business and leisure clients googling for Email: [email protected] Travellers can then choose a Valpas Hotels safe stays with the F6, redirecting them from www.valpashotels.com/forhotels May 2019 www.hotelowner.co.uk 17