In mid-March 2020, one week after the WHO declared the global pandemic and just as lockdowns were being introduced around the world we published a blog called “A full-blown, long-term crisis...
People are any company’s most valuable asset and as such protecting them at work should be a prime objective; this is perhaps more so when companies send their people travelling on company business...
It seems a long time coming, but as the global vaccine roll-out gathers pace people will start travelling again and using hotels; when? who knows but it will happen. There is little doubt that there...
On January 19, 2021, The UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (OCT), launched The Global Programme to Countering Terrorism Against Vulnerable Targets, developed in partnership with the UN Alliance of...
Hotel companies are increasingly looking to merge their security and safety teams to do more with less whilst striving to maintain standards in both. The organisation merging is the easy bit;...
In previous blogs (Intelligence at the Heart of Security Risk Management and Merging Physical and Cyber Security), I championed the idea of physical and cybersecurity teams merging to form a unified...
In a year full of bad news, December finally brought us some good. Vaccines that promise to help curb the pandemic and allow us to return to all those activities we have so sorely missed. Return to...
In the aftermath of the dramatic events that unfolded in Washington DC on January 6th, images emerged of unmasked, flag waving guests in the public spaces in a hotel from a major chain. The hotel...
Just before the first COVID lockdown this March I was fortunate enough to take a ‘grand tour’ of India visiting 10 great hotels in places such as New Delhi, Goa, Hampi, Bangalore, Rameswaram,...
Risk Management has come under scrutiny as companies struggle with the current situation, has risk management protected business or is the function hiding behind ‘unprecedented circumstances? Can...