New Booking.com Health and Safety Protocols

In light of the recent developments around COVID-19, health, safety, and cleanliness are top of mind for travellers. At Booking.com we believe it is our duty to protect our partners’ and guests’ while promoting safe travel. 

Accommodation partners are making efforts to meet traveller expectations around hygiene and want to showcase their property in the best way possible. We want to ensure the information and measures being taken by properties is also passed on to you and your guests to encourage booking with confidence. 

As such, we’ve developed new features that have been added to property pages on Booking.com to help travellers feel more at ease when booking accommodation.

New Booking.com Health and Safety Protocols

There are three key focus areas for Booking.com’s new protocols:

1. Safety features and cleaning:
   Gives travellers peace of mind by highlighting an accommodation’s use of hand sanitizer and disinfectant wipes, as well as their adherence to local regulations.
2. Physical distancing: 
   Assures guests of social distancing measures, such as contactless check-in & check-out and cashless payment. 
3. Food safety: 
   Addresses food safety standards for in-room and public dining.

We would like to note that our new Health and Safety Protocol is here to address the health and safety risks of our partners and guests, but does not override any local regulations. 

Messaging You Can Share with your Customers

It is also important that Customers are informed about these new attributes.  To assist you with this, please take a look at our recommended messaging in this article.

Thank you for taking the necessary steps to help travellers feel confident with future bookings.