Terrorists Target Hospitality Industry
The global terrorist network has shifted its focus to targeting the hotel and tourism industries. Footage of demolished hotels and resorts, the ensuing chaos and innocent victims are growing into a common sight on newscasts around the world. Powerful explosives are the preferred method of attack and the carrier is most often a suicide bomber or a suicide vehicle.
In response to this growing trend, travelers are driving the hospitality industry to take action and address safety concerns. Hotel security today is no longer an added service. Hotel guests, whether they be vacationing families or corporate executives, are looking not only for excellent accommodations and top quality service, but also a guarantee of maximum safety and security.

Meeting the Terrorist Threat
The Sdema Group offers inclusive security solutions to protect your hotel and clientele based on three main principles: cutting client costs, ensuring the flow of “business as usual” and providing unobtrusive solutions that blend into your hotel’s environment.
The Sdema package includes threat analysis, security plans, technology training, emergency procedures and implementation. Sdema employs an Explosive Defense System with three central components: Blast Defense System (BDS), physical defense and a thorough tactical defense plan.

Blast Defense System
BDS is a proven tool for upgrading solutions to facility protection plans. Via computer simulation, Sdema is able to assess the survivability of a structure and all persons located within from an unlimited number of potential explosion scenarios. Clients can virtually watch the impact of an explosion at any location in the hotel and “see” its effects on the actual building and on all persons in the lobby, at the bar, meeting in conference rooms or sleeping in their beds. This detailed analysis predicts damage not only from a possible building collapse, but also from the more dangerous primary and secondary fragmentation that accompany explosions.

BDS often reveals that to limit loss of life all that is needed is to slightly alter the entrance to a hotel or to place a decorative column in an upstairs hallway. These minor and very inexpensive physical defense modifications have a major security impact. They can offer substantially more protection than armed security guards and other typical solutions that create an atmosphere of impending danger and detract from the relaxing ambiance that our clients wish to create in their hotels. In addition, implementing the Explosive Defense System also dramatically decreases insurance rates.

Sdema solutions save lives, save businesses and aid in recovery of the tourism industry. Preventing the collapse or partial collapse of a structure ensures business continuity. Minimal damage and severely limited loss of life means that your hotel will not be out of service for an extended amount of time. In addition, minimizing the panic and fear that follow the kinds of attacks that took place in Mumbassa, Bali and Jordan will limit the overall impact on the tourism industry that occurs globally following tragic attacks.