Allergy-Friendly Hotel Rooms are under the microscope
For years now the hotel industry has banked on the concept of allergy-friendly hotel rooms. These rooms are said to do everything from purifying the air and killing airborne viruses, to filtering shower water and using germicidal ultraviolet lights in air-conditioning units to keep cooling coils free of molds and fungi.
But has anyone actually stopped and asked the companies who sell the products and the hotels that use them: "Hey man, does this stuff actually work?"
Luckily for us, scientists from the University of Buffalo did ask the question, and they are now teaming up with the allergy-friendly hotel industry to answer this very question.
Using the brand new "allergy-friendly" guest rooms in the Buffalo Niagara Marriott in Amherst as their lab, the Industry-University Center for Biosurfaces at the University of Buffalo is comparing the cleaning processes and air-purification devices developed by five companies.
It should be interested to see how well allergy-friendly hotel rooms fare. They are a major selling point in this day and age, and because of that a lot of hotels raise the price of the rooms. However, if they fail the tests, you could just be wasting your money.
