The Hotel "Problem Sheets" Hide Hidden Secrets.

Food, clothing and housing are five things that belong to the family. However, for the "travelling business people", the hotels that they live in are very common.

There may be hidden secrets.

Gao Wenyue, a small boss who has been engaged in the laundry industry for more than 10 years, has a special habit of bringing towels and sheets on a business trip or tour.

Not only that, he told his family or relatives to bring their own bedding when they go out to live in hotels.

"I do this business myself, and I know a few friends who open laundry in Econo Hotel.

From them, I see that laundry or towels sheets that are washed, if they look clean, are almost washed away and dried or ironed directly. "

Gao Wenyue told reporters.

In response, industry insiders say that behind the problem sheets is the lack of regulation in the laundry industry and the survival crisis caused by the price war in the hotel industry.

And Gao Wen Yue's analogy to the problem of Econo Hotel sheets is that "consumers are standing on the top of the mountain, the hotel is on the ground, and our washing industry is underground."

Washing outsourcing to third parties

Many people feel their skin tickles when they go out to a hotel.

In the past, people attributed it to acclimatization or skin allergy, but in fact, it was often caused by unclean sheets.

Recently, a private investigation group released a report that after 204 field Econo Hotel and Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Qingdao and other places of Econo Hotel conducted field research and pH detection, found that the 33.3% Econo Hotel sample whiteness is not qualified, 80% Hotel Textiles pH value is seriously exceeded.

The survey also showed that among the 204 samples, 136 sheets had a pH value of more than 8, showing a partial alkalinity, while 170 towels and 153 pillowcases had a pH value of more than 8, while 17 towels had a pH value of less than 5, showing a partial acidity.

"Hotel textiles are highly acidic and highly chlorinated, which can cause skin itching."

Wang Chaoyi, director of the training school of daylight fine (Group) company, told reporters: "during the early Olympic Games, a group of guests in Hotel Nikko in Beijing lived in itchy skin. The Tourism Bureau asked us to test it. When the pH value was 7.3, it was not very high."

Hotel Nikko is a five star hotel in the new century.

According to Wang Chaoyi, most of the high star hotels require daily change, and regularly check with sanitation and epidemic prevention stations. The requirements are much stricter than that of the Economy Inn Airport.

And for the Econo Hotel that pays attention to cost, it does not have its own laundry room to wash beds and tablecloths.

Reporters interviewed yesterday, such as home, Jinjiang star and other brand chain Econo Hotel learned that, because most of Econo Hotel needs to save fixed assets and labor costs, most of the washing business is outsourcing to third party companies.

Orange Hotel said in an interview with the newspaper, the company has invited a national accreditation inspection agency to check, the test results reached the best section of the national standard, if the outside world has doubts, it is willing to random spot checks.

The cost game of price war

For hotels

The quality of the products is worrying. Econo Hotel has kicked the ball to the laundry.

Most Econo Hotel operators say that washing operations are outsourced and it is difficult to detect their washing quality.

For example, the Econo Hotel will conduct a simple check on every good bed product. The experienced housekeeping staff will analyze the appearance, softness, cleanliness and smell of the fabric. If problems are found, the cleaning partners will immediately ask for corrective actions. If they fail to meet the standards, they will replace the partners.

"In the specific operation, we will verify all kinds of licenses of the washing company, and check their washing plants. We will only cooperate with the manufacturers that meet the quality standards.

Because chain hotels are located in various cities throughout the country, the choice of washing companies is divided according to the urban area, for example, the stores in the same area will be sent to a washing company, and there will be different washing partners in the whole country.

Mr. Joe, head of marketing department of JinJiang Inn, told the newspaper.

But all of these are preliminary observation tests based on the naked eye. Econo Hotel is very difficult to carry out on-site professional testing, and there is no professional testing equipment and capabilities.

At the same time, the cost of professional testing is very high, not the Econo Hotel.

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In this regard, the washing industry believes that the initiator of the problem is Econo Hotel.

Wang Chaoyi has been engaged in the washing industry for many years, and he also thinks that he is very concerned about the hygiene of bed products in the hotel industry.

"Shortcut hotels / Econo Hotel do not have washing plants themselves, most of them are outsourced, and they are trying hard to reduce the price of laundry for profit. Some non-standard laundry factories have low cost and low cost industrial detergent in order to survive.

For example, the characteristics of the caustic soda are to wash the clothes white, but the basicity is quite high, which can reach 13~14.

If you use such a detergent, rinse more frequently, the sheets show high alkalinity. "

Wang Chaoyi explains this.

In recent years, due to the constant growth and development of Fasthotel, price competition is becoming increasingly fierce.

From the daytime hourly room to the low price house at night, the price is close to the bottom line.

The cost control of Econo Hotel will undoubtedly affect its various budgets.

According to reports, in Beijing, the price of a bed sheet can be reduced to 0.8~0.9 yuan, with a maximum of no more than 1.2 yuan.

But in fact, the cost of qualifying a bed sheet is 1.6 yuan (excluding profit).

Another reporter has learned that the price of washing outsourcing in Shanghai has risen this year, about 5.6 yuan / set, one is pillowcases, sheets, bath towels, face towels and ground towels.

Lack of supervision in washing industry

"We all know that health management departments only supervise the regular manufacturers, while the informal manufacturers are almost unsupervised."

Wang Chaoyi was very angry about this.

Wang Chaoyi once ran a laundry agency called the first brigade Hotel washing company.

The company was born to receive the Olympic Games in Beijing.

But over the past few years, due to the vicious competition in the washing industry, the company failed because of poor management.

In response, Dong Jinshi, an environmental protection expert of the International Food Packaging Association, said: "the lack of industry regulation is the most important problem at present."

The hotel industry generally believes that the supervision of cooperation with washing plants can only rely on the integrity of both sides.

As the hotel can not be monitored for 24 hours, so if some of the washing factory license is complete, the auditor is also qualified, but if really in the specific washing operation, "Jerry building", it is difficult for Econo Hotel employees to rely on the naked eye to detect problems.

Regulatory disputes still exist not only in the washing industry.

According to the data released by the civil survey group, the "80% pH value of Fasthotel sheets" exceeded the standard data.

Econo Hotel questioned the fact that the data of the group did not come from authoritative inspection agencies, but rather the results of its own sampling and lack of professionalism.

The private investigation group said that the next step would be to mobilize the majority of netizens to conduct nationwide monitoring of hotel health problems.

Wang Chaoyi urged the relevant health and quarantine departments to participate quickly and look forward to more authoritative data.