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Have a bed bug infestation in one of your hotels, B&Bs, motels or hostels and don’t know what to do? Heard of an infestation in your neighbourhood and want to protect your business?

Bed bug infestations in hotels are on the rise

Once inside a hotel or hostel bed bugs spread rapidly from room to room – through pipes, vacuum cleaners, on clothing and luggage. In a hotel, bed bugs can spread to neighboring rooms, since guests often move from room to room.

Bed bugs don’t discriminate

Bed bugs plague five star hotels, motels and cruise ships alike. They are difficult to diagnose and detect and therefore, can become well established before they become recognized. Once recognized, there can be significant emotional, financial and legal consequences.

Do you have procedures in place to deal with the threat of bed bugs?

Pesticides are not as reliable as you think. According to the Journal of American Medicine1, your bed bug response plan should include an integrated approach and a variety of products to destroy eggs.

Rest Assured MC supplies the most advanced, non-toxic effective products to detect, manage and treat infestations

  1. Detect infestations quickly – Encasements, a great early detection tool2. While there are a lot of mattress and pillow encasements available, not all are effective. BugstopTM are 100% lab certified and it’s tight knit fabric and specially designed zipper and patch are guaranteed to keep bed bugs out.
  2. Train staff to recognize the signs of bed bugs - We carry detection and prevention tools help you monitor activity 365 days a year.
  3. Steam cleaning, Vacuuming - Vapor Dry Steam Cleaning is a safe, non-toxic, chemical free way to  eradicate bed bugs – hot dry steam kills bed bugs and their eggs on contact (and sanitizes the room).
  4. Cryonite® freezing - A 100% organic method using carbon dioxide kills bugs dead without leaving residue or require post treatment work.

71% increase in bedbug calls since 2001

You’re not alone. According to The National Pest Management Association (NPMA), it’s member pest management agencies have had a 71% increase in bedbug calls since 2001. The sharpest increases in major metropolitan areas such as New York, Denver, Toronto, Ottawa, Edmonton, and Vancouver.

1 (JAMA 301:13; April 2009)
2 52% of U.S. pest control firms routinely utilize bedding encasements. (Potter, Romero & Haynes, 2008)