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Video: Hotels Expected to Provide Comforts of Home to Summer Travelers

CINCINNATI, June 30 PRNewswire — P&G Professional(R), the away-from-home division of Procter & Gamble, is helping hotels with two traditionally pressing issues during this year's summer travel season - hair and odor.

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With many American families still planning a summer vacation despite economic concerns, many hotel owners are turning to Febreze(R) and Swiffer(R), from P&G Professional, to provide the cleanliness that travelers are used to in their own homes.

"The first things I notice about a room are the size, the level of cleanliness, and the smell," said Kelby Carr, a feature travel writer and blogger. "Even if a hotel sends someone to clean up a problem area in my room, that first impression stays with me and I will continue to think about it."

Paul Dougherty, director of operations at the Westin(R) Hilton Head Resort and Spa, is familiar with the hair and odor challenges associated with summer break travel. His resort prides itself on being a family friendly destination and welcomes advances in hair and odor removal.

"Hair is pretty much the biggest issue in any hotel, especially bathroom hair and bed hair," Dougherty said.

To meet these and other dusting needs, P&G Professional offers the Swiffer Dust Removal Line(TM), which includes a variety of products for all sorts of dusting tasks allowing housekeepers to not just move dust, but eliminate it with fibers that grab dust and lock it away.

Dougherty said the "hotel's proximity to the beach and entire families staying in a single room make odor a challenge as well. Just having a lot of people in a room over a certain number of days creates malodors," he said. "For us, it's a combination of hot, moist air and vacationers belongings like wet towels and bathing suits. It's that musty, wet smell we fight more than anything else."

To solve odor problems that may arise, many summer destination hotels turn to Febreze. Febreze helps remove odors and staleness through a technology that eliminates odor molecules to leave rooms smelling fresh instead of just masking odor.

Innovative products like Febreze and Swiffer tackle two of the lodging industry's common challenges by effectively eliminating hair and odor. For hotels interested in attracting families to their facility and avoiding negative comments about the cleanliness of their rooms, Febreze and Swiffer can help.

For more information on how Febreze and Swiffer can help create an odor and hair-free environment for guests, visit www.pgpro.com or call 1-800-332-RSVP.

About P&G Professional

Procter & Gamble Professional(R) is the away-from-home division of Procter & Gamble, serving the foodservice, building cleaning and maintenance, hospitality and convenience stores industries. P&G Professional offers complete solutions utilizing its parent company's scale, trusted brands and strengths in market and consumer understanding. P&G Professional features such brands as Tide(R), Folgers(R), Dawn(R), Mr. Clean(R), Febreze(R), Swiffer(R), and its own brand, P&G Pro Line(TM). Please visit www.pgbrands.com for the latest information about P&G Professional's solutions.

About P&G (NYSE: PG)

Three billion times a day, P&G brands touch the lives of people around the world. The company has one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Pampers(R), Tide(R), Ariel(R), Always(R), Whisper(R), Pantene(R), Mach3(R), Bounty(R), Dawn(R), Gain(R) Pringles(R), Folgers(R), Charmin(R), Downy(R), Lenor(R), Iams(R), Crest(R), Oral-B(R), Actonel(R), Duracell(R), Olay(R), Head & Shoulders(R), Wella(R), Gillette(R), and Braun(R). The P&G community consists of almost 138,000 employees working in over 80 countries worldwide. Please visit http://www.pg.com for the latest news and in-depth information about P&G and its brands.

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