Hospitality Security: Managing Security in Today’s Hotel, Lodging, Entertainment, & Tourism Environment

A security director must have knowledge of criminal and civil law, risk and personnel management, budgeting and finance, and a host of other areas in order to be effective. Hospitality Security: Managing Security in Today’s Hotel, Lodging, Entertainment, and Tourism Environment provides experience-based, proven methods for preventing and resolving the challenges faced by today’s hospitality practitioner.

Designed for both novice security professionals and industry veterans in need of a reference, the book covers:

* Risk assessment, where threats and vulnerabilities are calculated with probabilities to determine risk
* The security plan, where you decide how to apply various layers of control to mitigate the risks
* Budgeting: the amount of money available to implement the plan determines the next step
* Policies: how to document policies into a security manual, training manual, emergency procedures manual, and incident action plan
* Staffing: scheduling, wages, deployment, and contract security
* Training, including specialized topics such as use of force and bike patrol
* Physical security and patrol procedures
* Alarm and camera systems and various software programs
* Emergency procedures and response
* Investigations, interviews, and crime analysis
* Executive skills: learning from proven leadership styles

Ideal for novices and veterans alike, this accessible, reader-friendly primer enables security directors to evaluate what risks are inherent to hospitality environments, analyze those risks through threat and vulnerability assessments, and develop methods to mitigate or eliminate them-all the while keeping customers and personnel safe and improving the bottom line.