Travelodge CEO Faces Backlash Over Women's Safety

0:00On March 30th, a woman named Molly was sexually assaulted in a travel lodge hotel room back in 2022, when a guy named Kyron Smith tricked. Staff into giving him a key by pretending to be her partner. He got jailed for seven and a half years in February. Now she's calling out the chain CEO for not taking women's safety seriously enough, especially after their first response was just offering her. 30 pounds is compensation. The hotel apologized for that mess and quickly changed its policy. No more extra room keys without the guests. Okay. Molly met with CEO Joe Boydell and some labor MPs pushing for better hotel security, but she says progress has been way too slow with zero real. Accountability. This is hit Molly hard. She won't stay in hotels alone anymore. MPs are fired up too, with one ex-cop saying the chain blew a chance for real leadership. Even a prime minister stepped in urging Boydell to meet a bigger group of MPs after she dodged them. Boydell called the attack horrifying and said she's sorry for the slow handling.

1:03Travelodge kicked off an independent review and invited MPs to chime in by writing. The victim's minister Alex Davies Jones says nothing's off the table in upcoming talks with hotel bosses after Easter. All this pressure shows hotels got to step up on safety and with MPs and victims leading the charge, real changes might finally stick for women. Traveling solo.