Magued Fawzy, head of the Chamber of Hotel Establishments, said a meeting is scheduled with the representative of Preverisk, the health and food safety consultancy, to discuss the details of the annual contract between the company and the chamber to apply health and food safety standards in all Egyptian hotels and to set a plan for implementing it, after the audit of Hurghada's hotels was completed last year.
Fawzy added, in exclusive statements, that the company's officials will carry out inspection visits to Hurghada hotels to make sure the observations they recommended last year have been implemented.
The Chamber of Hotel Establishments had contracted with Preverisk for health and food safety consultancy given the importance of guests' health and safety, which is one of the important aspects affecting the promotion of any tourist destination because of its direct impact on tourists' sense of reassurance and their enjoyment during their stay. The Chamber of Hotel Establishments contracted with an international consultancy, "Preverisk for health and safety consultancy," a company with long experience in this field that provides support services in health and food safety, with operations in 40 tourist cities in 18 countries.
The company audits health and food safety standards according to the guidelines of the Federation of Tour Operators (FTO) and the Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA), covering food safety systems at all stages, water management systems, the training and personal hygiene program, swimming pool hygiene, the policy for preventing the spread of germs to prevent illness, the hygiene of staff accommodation and facilities, the disposal of solid waste and wastewater, pest control and the measures to be taken for it, including the use of insecticides, and finally the source and safety of the water used to irrigate gardens.
The company reviewed the performance of 103 hotels, including 83 hotels in Hurghada, 14 in El Gouna and 6 in Makadi. The company's official gave his observations and explained how to eliminate the cause of each problem, and the visit was followed by the company's report, which the chamber sent to the hotels, setting out the observations and how to avoid them. What the hotels have done to eliminate the causes of the problems will be followed up by revisiting those hotels in the last third of January 2019. The company is currently auditing floating hotels.
