Have You Left Something Behind Lately!

Losing items while travelling has been an experience that travellers have faced since travel first began. Today’s busy hotel travellers come with a myriad of electronic support gadgets that expand the potential to forget something upon checkout. In the US alone in 2011Americans lost 30 billion dollars worth of mobile phones. Many of these left in hotels while travelling.

A recent study concluded that in the US alone, travellers leave over 46 million items every year in hotels.

One of the most left behind items are chargers. Why chargers? For one, they are usually dark colored and plugged into a wall outlet and hard to see by the guest when leaving. You plug it in at night and often forget it when leaving.

Items left behind vary according to the diversity of guests travelling.

Hoteliers say they could alert guests to a left-behind item, but for reasons including privacy it is avoided.

At the Fairmont Waterfront in Vancouver the staff became creative by using their collection of chargers for Christmas decorations. The cables of their chargers were used to string recycled paper snowflakes.

Enjoy Travelling!