Griffith said prior to her ordeal, she would “regularly travel on my own”.
“I treat travel now and security in particular in hotel rooms so differently,” she added.
Carolyn Pearson, CEO of travel security company Maiden Voyage, said handing a room key to someone claiming to be a guest’s boyfriend is an “incredibly basic” failure, but one that is “unfortunately very common across the industry”.
“This is not just a Travelodge issue,” she added.
Pearson said hotels “should never ever confirm whether or not a guest is staying at the hotel or not”.
Dawn Brennan, CEO of women’s safety charity Wise Women, said: “We would say that no one should be getting access to any rooms unless they’re registered and also provide an ID.
“But even further than that considering women’s safety, the hotel should have policies in place where they double check as well if it’s a partner that’s coming to the reception and they don’t have the key.”
Griffith said she believed security and safety at hotels was an “industry-wide problem” and has set up a petition calling on the government to implement minimum safety and guest security standards across all hotels in the UK.
As the law stands at present, primarily, the hotel and its management are responsible for the safety of guests.
Each hotel, or chain, will have its own security policy which staff should abide by.
Griffith said: “What has kept me speaking up about this is the fact that so many people have been affected, in particular women, and something positive has to come from these incidences.
“Change has to happen and I’ve said throughout a locked hotel room should mean exactly that. Locked, safe, yours.
“What I want now is for the lessons from this review to go beyond Travelodge and help create clear national standards across the hotel industry.”
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