Monday 19 July 2010

Another Big Problem When Travelling With Pet

This true story came to mind when friends in the lodging business asked me to research a new burgeoning market segment: guests travelling with their pets. The pet industry is booming like never before. Lodging operators have realized that millions of pet owners need to travel with their pet. There's over a dozen pet-friendly directories on the net, comprised of lodging establishments that welcome guests with pets. When trip planning, basically click on these web-based pet-friendly directories and select which hotels on your route, or at your intended location, accept pets with the visitor in the room.

But let me pause for the cause, for only a moment of reality. Getting as basic as I can here--to make my point--one thing they know for definite is that canines and felines, like they humans, must eat and they have to--well you get the picture. The query raises itself. How does a hotel owner manage this potential mountain of pet poop? The answer rises to the appropriate occasion: somebody had to invent a special plastic biodegradable doggie bag. that conveniently assists the pet owner in picking up after his pet and allowing him to dispose of this undesirable waste in such a manner that the plastic bag and its contents degrade in to nothing but CO2, water and humic matter, when it is put in the landfill or the composting containers. These people originally began promotion plastic biodegradable trash bags and bags for carrying home the food from the supermarket.

Plenty of hotels provide those guests with or of these branded doggie bags on check-in. Some have also added some explanatory knowledge about their environmentally-friendly poop management program in the visitor room.
Now when you travel along with your pet, you'll see that the actual clever hotels are concerned about the environment and are carefully handling such waste. This sends another positive message to you--including those without pets--that this hotel, inn or resort is professional and caring for the safety and comfort of all its guests.

Let's face it: if a hotel is going to appeal to and welcome guests travelling with their pets, that hotel is going to must manage the poop issue. Whether inside the room as in the case with the kitty box, or outside the room on the hotel grounds, in the pricey shrubs and flower beds, or on the manicured lawns, "poop management" can be a sizable issue...or opportunity for the hotel owner.

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