01/08/2018

"Do Not Disturb," Retired?

How hotels and resorts are contemplating the end of personal privacy

Travelers may see the “do not disturb” sign as a simple request for privacy in their hotel rooms, but the realities of modern security are shifting hotels’ thinking on this long-standing tradition.

In the months after a deadly attack on a Las Vegas music festival by a gunman who had built a cache of weapons inside two hotel rooms at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, some hotel operators have done away with the door signs, and others are changing how they’re used.

Already, Disney has replaced its “do not disturb” signs at four of its theme park resorts with “room occupied” signs and now informs guests of a new policy that a hotel employee must enter a room at least once in a 24-hour period, according to The New York Times. The company plans to add the signs at all of its Disney World and Disneyland resorts. It did not directly connect the change to the Las Vegas shooting.

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