Hotel Security
HTT/200
July 26, 2015
Professor James Akins

Hotel Security
Hotel security is a huge part of a hotel and the employees of the security department play a large part in keeping it safe. Security is responsible for keeping quest safe as they walk to the hotel from their cars, they are also supposed to ensure the safety of the guest vehicles while they are in the hotel. Employees in the security department walk the halls to make sure that the guest are getting to their rooms safely without any problems. They also make sure there are people just hanging around in the lobby or restaurants. Identity theft is a huge problem in the world we live in, this is why it is important that all procedures for destroying or handling people’s personal information is handled properly. When guest send in credit card authorizing forms the information should be used and shredded. Any information that contains name, email address, mailing address, and phone numbers should be destroyed as well. All entrances with the exception of the front door should be locked at night and you must use a key to enter the building at night. Another security issues that is important is never letting a guest into a room without proper identification, if they are locked out if their room. I know one thing that my hotel has changed and updated is the sales team no longer keeps copies of the credit card on file. Once the credit card has been used they destroy it. Another thing that I know has change is the way that hotels shred information, hotels use to use shredders, now they are using companies that take the information in a locked trash can. This company is the only person with the key to the trash can, no one on property has a key. Hotel all over have updated their security systems, cameras, and overall presence of security guards. I have also seen some hotel place cop cars in their