{"id":98880976,"date":"2011-08-23T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/poll-most-americans-say-cleanliness-is-driving-factor-when-booking-hotels\/"},"modified":"2022-04-18T07:46:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T11:46:07","slug":"poll-most-americans-say-cleanliness-is-driving-factor-when-booking-hotels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/poll-most-americans-say-cleanliness-is-driving-factor-when-booking-hotels\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Most Americans Say Cleanliness is Driving Factor When Booking Hotels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent survey conducted by the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies found that most Americans cite cleanliness as the most important factor when it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/hotels\">booking a hotel<\/a> stay.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>43% of respondents said that cleanliness was most important to them when booking. Cleanliness beat out all other factors, including price (23%), location (19%) and security (11%).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While the findings might not be so surprising to the average consumer, the insurance-minded pollsters were a shocked at what little importance Americans seem to be placing on security.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Travelers should take safety precautions more seriously, and travel security should be higher on their checklist than cleanliness,&#8221; warned Jim Villa, senior vice president and North American manager for Chubb&#8217;s Accident &amp; Health business.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/americans-pick-cleanliness-over-hotel-security-according-to-survey-128178018.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PRNewswire <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent survey conducted by the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies found that most Americans cite cleanliness as the most important factor when it comes to booking a hotel stay. &nbsp; 43% of respondents said that cleanliness was most important to them when booking. Cleanliness beat out all other factors, including price (23%), location (19%) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98880976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-international-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98880976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98910163,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880976\/revisions\/98910163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98880976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98880976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98880976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}