{"id":791052,"date":"2026-10-03T21:12:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T21:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/791052\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T21:12:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T21:12:30","slug":"travelodge-sex-assault-victim-calls-for-hotel-security-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/791052\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelodge sex assault victim calls for hotel security guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked if she would stay in a Travelodge hotel following the report, the woman said: &#8220;No.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;I think that&#8217;s because I&#8217;m quite determined to actually make some changes in terms of hotel security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If I could stop someone else from getting in the situation I was in and not knowing what to do and having those feelings then it&#8217;s definitely worth it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Sometimes something bad hopefully can then lead to something good, and I&#8217;m quite driven to want to make things better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following this week&#8217;s report, Travelodge said it apologised &#8220;unreservedly&#8221; to the woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reidy said the review made clear there were failures in its policies and in the way customers had been treated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have made significant progress in preventing and addressing these issues over the past six months, and we recognise we still have further to go,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The firm added that a new board committee would oversee the changes, with independent assessments of its progress after six and 12 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asked if she would stay in a Travelodge hotel following the report, the woman said: &#8220;No.&#8221; She added:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-791052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}