Hospitality Security: Managing Security in Today's Hotel, Lodging, Entertainment, and 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.