The beginning of the holiday season is fast approaching. Millions of Americans will be traveling to visit relatives or embarking on family vacations over the upcoming holidays. Holiday travel often means that you and your family will be spending at least a few nights staying at hotels or resorts. Unfortunately, peak travel periods increase the likelihood that a few unwelcome guests may also be checking into your hotel along with holiday revelers.

Reports of bed bug incidents at hotels, motels, resorts and even cruise ships seem to increase during the holidays. Hotel and resort owners take the blame and smart managers step up commercial bed bug inspections to keep control of the situation; but the sad truth is that there is little hotels can do to keep bed bugs out. These tiny blood-sucking insects are not attracted by dirt or filth but are brought into hotels and resorts by guests!

Typically picked up during a hotel stay in an infested room, bed bugs are transported to the next stop on a person’s holiday itinerary hidden in their luggage. During the night, bed bugs will crawl out of suitcases to feed on sleeping humans then hide in nearby crevices to sleep off their meal. If you are unlucky enough to be the next guest assigned to that hotel room, you become the new main course and run the risk of carrying bed bugs home in your luggage!