A Challenge To All Hotels In Thailand To

[SaenYim]

The levels of protection here in Thailand are as low as in the two hotels in Mumbai where those terrible massacres occurred a few months ago and the one blown up yesterday in Peshawar. Your telling yourself that you have adequate protection for your guests does not make it true. As an expert in real security and not "looks like security" which is all you offer your guests, I can tell you and everyone else that you are not fulfilling your responsibilities by advertising "24 hour security" when all that means is people in uniform with walkie talkies. While no one could ever guarantee that the attacks in Mumbai or Peshawar could have been totally prevented, I can confidently state that the number of victims would have been dramatically diminished had the correct equipment, arrangements, procedures and security personnel training been in place and in effect. And you have none of those.

As an example, the terrorists in Mumbai were able to gain easy entry not only to the ground floor but then to every other floor as well. There is no excuse for this. The worst case scenario should have been that they were able to shoot their way into one entrance and then stopped there. The white truck in Peshawar should never have gotten past the gate, but like at your hotel, the guards had inadequate training and insufficient equipment. With a more secure entry point, even that could have been made considerably more difficult and contained at that point.

Thailand already is suffering financially from a drop in tourism and investment due to the worldwide economical downturn combined with the recent domestic political turmoil. An attack like the one in Peshawar could be the final nail in the fiscal coffin for Thailand. It would certainly be a boost for The Kingdom to gain the reputation as "the safest vacation destination in Asia".

This could be accomplished if all the major hospitality facilities had real security instead of the facade of "non- security" they have now, mostly comprised of untrained, skinny guys with whistles and walkie talkies. One of these days, the family of a victim will sue a major hotel for falsely advertising "24 security". If it is in Thailand, the long-term effects could be disastrous.

Guests want to stay where they and their families can walk out of their room any time of day or night, sure that there are no unauthorized persons lurking around. They want to know that when they leave their room, their belongings are safe. They want to know that the security staff has full visual coverage of the entire property all of the time, not just at the front entrance or on predictable patrols, or when they remember to watch the monitors. They want to know that if there is a problem, someone with specific and professional training in screening, monitoring, threat assessment and situation control, will come to help them. This requires an integrated security plan including total control of all means of ingress to the building; coded, biometric room entry; constant CCTV surveillance of all public areas.

An inexpensive security assessment for a hotel, resort or spa will provide you with four or five pages of recommendations on how to best improve your security. Are the lives of your guests really not worth the little money it will cost you?

It is time that the management of hotels in Thailand stop trying to save a few baht rather than saving a lot of lives. The bottom line will not be so important when they are carrying out your guests in body bags. Please do not wait until there is a tragedy here to implement real security protocols and methodologies at your hotel.

[cocopops]

Idiotic.

[MJo]

Here we go again, must be a troll or other wind up.

OP, if you have any proof of imminent terrorist attack in Thailand why not to share it with the authorities...

[MJo]

Or are you selling "an inexpensive security assessments", ex sas perhaps ?

[lazygourmet]

spam...

[Robert44]

Even if real - who would be willing to pay??

[hansnl]

When there is money to be earned, safety goes out.

Hotels, railways, airlines, ferries, buses, anywhere.

[babuhavas]

but now a days thai hotels don;t have much guests,so no point wasting more money,

they will be happy if their hotel is blew up like mumbai,atleast they can claim insurance......

[deprogrammed]

Brainwashed

[apetley]

If anyone wants to set up a sweepstake on the nationality of the OP my guess is American.

[BigSnake]

To much Mai Pai Rai in the land of smiles I for one fear the FIRE trap Hotels more than I do terrorists, exits lock or block no fire alarm system, many such hotels around the big mango and other parts of the Kingdom checkout some of the exits routes next time you check in to your favorite hotel.