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Everybody deserves privacy, but delivering privacy in a building where hundreds of people come in and out daily can be complicated. Hotel guests share lots of sensitive information when they book a room, including their credit card number, contact information, and more. Even their location, that they appeared in the hotel at all, is private.

Hotels are vulnerable to data breaches, as there have been several notable ones over the past few years. Often, the breaches involve network and POS payment systems, but paper documents are a low-tech but very real threat.

It doesn’t matter whether a hotel is a one-off boutique or a national chain — they need to guarantee their guest’s privacy. Let’s check out the ways Absolute Destruction can protect your guests from identity theft, fraud, and more.

Paper Shredding Made Easy

Hotels are complicated businesses with many moving parts. The hospitality sector is all about delivering exceptional services, and hotel guests have diverse needs. They may want to eat, do laundry or dry cleaning, go for a swim, and more. Hotels need to make all this not just possible but seamless, which means being ready to respond at the drop of a hat if a guest needs or wants anything.

Hotels need to deliver exceptional service without cutting corners elsewhere. Absolute Destruction makes shredding easy for hotels by offering a reliable shredding service right to their door. Our technicians will destroy your documents at your premises in their mobile shredding truck, so there’s no opportunity for the documents to somehow go missing in transit.

If you prefer off-site destruction, we can handle that too! Our speedy, secure pick-up services can remove your documents off your hands so you can safely declutter without worrying that the material could result in a data breach.

Ask about our one-time pick-up option, or choose a recurring scheduled document shredding service if your need is regular. Our services are convenient and secure, so you can get back to worrying about your guests, not your operation.

Shredding More Than Paper

Sometimes, the sensitive information businesses possess isn’t on paper. Our comprehensive corporate document destruction services mean we handle all types of shredding, including electronic devices and specialty shredding.

Hotel guests and employees may have electronic devices they no longer need. Keeping them lying around presents a security risk, as it’s impossible to say for sure how much personal data is on them. Think about it: if a hotel has an obsolete phone, tablet, or computer, are they really going to search the entire hard drive to determine there’s no sensitive information somewhere on it before tossing it out?

Very few people will do such a search, and even if they did, they could miss something. The safest course of action is to let the professionals securely destroy the electronic devices, so the device itself is gone, and the data it once stored is irretrievable.

Tossing the device into the garbage doesn’t go far enough. Absolute Destruction will pulverize the microchips, so it’s impossible to obtain any information the device once held. Electronic devices are a common vector for identity theft and data breaches, but the final type of risk is one you may not think of.

Hotels issue uniforms, ID and access cards, and other things that identity thieves can use to obtain someone’s personal information or commit different types of fraud. You may be surprised and disheartened to learn how resourceful they can be and how little information it may take to compromise your ID!

It doesn’t matter what type of material it is, or the nature of the sensitive data. If it’s a security liability, Absolute Destruction can eliminate it.

Some of the forms of unorthodox destruction we handle include:

• Business plans
• Presentations
• Agreements
• HR documents
• Contracts
• Employee details
• Payroll information
• Marketing material
• Legal documents
• And more

Whether it’s your guests or the hotel staff who bring these things under your roof, they need to be securely shredded, or they’ll remain a data liability.

Environmentally Friendly

Hotel guests want to know that they’re being environmentally friendly. That’s why many hotels encourage guests to use towels until they’re actually dirty rather than consume water washing mostly clean towels.

Some hotels are finding other creative ways to be Green, from offering more charging stations for electric cars, recycling initiatives that cut down plastic and paper waste, water-saving showerheads, and more.

Absolute Destruction takes its environmental commitments seriously. We’ve diverted tons of waste from landfills, and our website keeps a running tally of the trees and water we saved. When you need shredding services in Toronto or the GTA with a strong environmental conscience, choose Absolute Destruction.

Many tourists and travellers are increasingly eco-conscious. Reducing your carbon footprint and helping guests do the same is good for both the environment and your business.

Member of NAID

Absolute Destruction is proud to be a member of NAID, the National Association for Information Destruction, ensuring we carry out our shredding ethically and compliantly.

We’re also a 100% Canadian-owned company that has been in operation since 1998. In over a quarter century of shredding and data destruction, we’ve offered Toronto and Southern Ontario businesses secure and convenient services.

Hotels often provide safes in rooms to lock their valuables. We are serious about ensuring your vulnerable data is secure. If a guest has a data breach related to your hotel, they aren’t likely to book another visit. They may also spread their story on social media, which can really impact your business.

If your hotel is looking to provide guests and employees with exceptional document destruction services, hire Absolute Destruction.

Ideally, your guests have a wonderful stay at your hotel, and walk away raving about the experience. If you want to steer clear of data breaches so you can focus on delivering excellent customer service and hospitality, call Absolute Destruction, and we’ll handle everything for you.