No Locals Allowed
Banning local residents from staying in hotels is becoming a growing trend in the United States, where state law will allow it.
Hotel Owners are utilizing laws to ban locals from their hotels, citing several valid reasons for their actions. A lot of the people who book hotel rooms do so to party, and vandalize the hotel rooms. Hotel rooms are also constantly the site of drug, and prostitute related crimes.
So are policies like these good or bad?
Obviously if you list all of the negative activities that can happen in a hotel you will convince a lot of people Banning residents from renting hotel rooms in their hometown is good way to curb crime, and vandalism in the hotels.
But what happens to everyone else who needs a hotel room?
Not every resident who rents a hotel room in the city do so to commit a crime, or party. Often a family will rent rooms in a hotel if there is damage to their home and the house is being worked on. Or,if there is a pest problem and they have to vacate the house for 24 hours.
Many couples use a hotel room as a getaway from their children for a night or a weekend; this is a great way to relieve the stress of raising a family. On the same note, sometimes a family will go to a hotel for a weekend to celebrate a birthday. So what happens to these people? Why is it that a hotel can just close their doors to people and no one bats an eye?
