Travelodge lends support as prepares to reopen in Fort
Fort William Travelodge was one of five hotels in crucial Scottish locations to open last week to support critical/key workers and local authorities, writes Fiona Scott.
The budget hotel chain, which has 47 hotels across Scotland, has been operating three of its hotels during the Covid-19 lockdown in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen – providing accommodation for key/critical workers and supporting local authorities during these unprecedented times.
Last Thursday the company kick-started its official hotel reopening programme by opening 68 of its venues across the UK and as of this week it will start to reopen 100 hotels per week which includes an additional nine hotels in Scotland.
As part of its reopening programme, Travelodge has taken its key learnings whilst operating in the lockdown and is launching Travelodge Protect+ a programme of cleaning and social distancing measures in line with government guidance – designed to keep its customers and teams save and protected post lockdown. Travelodge Protect+ has been developed by a dedicated cross functional hygiene strategy team and will become the way Travelodge operates going forward. The programme includes stringent protocols on Cleaning and Hygiene and Social Distancing.
Travelodge, Spokeswoman Shakila Ahmed said: ‘In these unprecedented times, our hotel teams across Scotland are working enormously hard, under great pressure, to support critical/key workers, vulnerable groups and local authorities.
‘We are delighted to be reopening a further five hotels this week in Scotland, which will assist our three hotels that have been operating during the lockdown.
‘We are also working around the clock to get our other Scottish hotels ready to reopen over the coming weeks.
‘With safety at the forefront of our business, we have worked closely with our hotel teams that stayed open during the lockdown, government and industry bodies to develop our new safety programme which is designed to keep our customers and teams safe and has been implemented into all Travelodge hotels.’