Hospitality Security: Managing Security in Today's Hotel, Nightlife, Entertainment, and Tourism Environment

Hospitality Security: Managing Security in Todays Hotel, Nightlife, Entertainment, and Tourism Environment, Second Edition provides practical methods for preventing and resolving challenges faced by hospitality security staff and leadership. It emphasizes the importance of prevention, investigation, and balancing guest enjoyment with guest protection. The book includes expanded content on premises liability, security force behavioral recognition, workplace violence, active shooter scenarios, evacuation planning, social media, and hotel scams. It is an accessible, reader-friendly reference for security directors.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 482 pages
Publication date: 16 December 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Hospitality Security: Managing Security in Today's Hotel, Nightlife, Entertainment, and Tourism Environment, Second Edition offers practical, experience-based methods for preventing and resolving the challenges faced by hospitality security staff and leadership. The lodging component of a hospitality environment presents unique security challenges due to its complex set of assets and amenities, particularly when combined with gaming environments. Whether you are establishing, improving, or managing a professional, proactive proprietary security force, or a boutique hotel manager, the practical strategies outlined in this book are applicable to everyone. Author Darrell Clifton guides the reader through a logical and methodical process to evaluate inherent risks in hospitality environments, assess them through threat and vulnerability assessments, and develop methods to mitigate, eliminate, or transfer them.

The book emphasizes the significance of prevention and investigating the root causes of incidents to avoid future undesirable events. Each registered guest brings their own unique set of circumstances, family values, problems, and social issues, and the security function must balance the protection of individual rights, privacy, and enjoyment with the obligation to provide reasonable care from foreseeable harm. Clifton, an experienced industry veteran, provides clear and practical solutions to achieve this balance, offering reasonable and cost-effective approaches to ensure guest enjoyment while maintaining guest protection.

Weight: 960g
Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367480189
Edition number: 2 ed