How to clean campsites, tourist villages and hotels?

Campsites and tourist villages are also legally obliged to guarantee certain quality standards.

Various quality indicators have to be monitored and, depending on what services are provided, accommodation facilities are rated, generally using a star system similar to that which identifies different hotel categories.

The quality indicators concerned require holiday destinations to optimise key aspects such as the percentage of common spaces available to guests, the finish of access and transit routes within the site, the quality of tent and camper pitches, bungalow liveability, the availability of adequate (and ideally covered) parking, and last but not least, the cleanliness of the entire site.

Reference standards aside, it is also common sense for the managers of such facilities to do all they can to offer guests the best possible service and to make their holidays pleasant and safe.

Wide, well-paved access roads, a green and shady environment and thoroughly cleaned structures are of key importance to anybody choosing a place to spend their holidays. Managers who want to develop and improve their business therefore have good reason to focus attention on all these aspects.

The larger the campsite or resort, the higher the level of total quality you need to achieve and the more challenging it becomes to arrange everything. From separate waste collection, to cleaning tent pitches and bungalows between guests… everything requires more staff and better organisation.

Even for cleaning common outdoor areas, it soon comes to the point where the choice of a higher performance, more efficient cleaning machine can make a big difference to running costs and to the quality of service offered.

When does it become advisable to use a floor sweeper to clean hospitality facilities?

Let us look at an example. When cleaning dusty walkways, covered in leaves and pine needles, a person with a brush and pan might take several days to complete a full tour of cleaning.

The same job done using a manual sweeper like the Picobello – the smallest Eureka floor sweeper – takes only a tenth of the time. In less than an hour’s work, an operator could achieve results that would be impossible even in a full day without a cleaning machine. If a motorised industrial sweeper with a wider cleaning path and a higher forward speed is used instead, productivity and operator comfort will increase even further.

Compared to brush and pan operations, using a specialist sweeper delivers more thorough, better-quality cleaning, and any dust raised during sweeping is aspirated and filtered to stop it becoming airborne and simply falling back onto the ground again.

So how do you choose the best sweeper for this kind of work?

Many variables need to be taken into account when choosing the best sweeper for maintaining communal areas in campsites and resorts. The width of the cleaning path should be well suited not only to the size of the areas to be cleaned but also to the narrowest points through which the machine has to pass. Autonomy between refuelling (or recharging, in the case of battery-powered machines) also needs to be considered.

The size of the debris hopper should also influence the final choice. The larger it is, the fewer times you have to interrupt cleaning in order to empty it at designated waste collection points

This aspect is often underestimated, but has a significant impact on the cost of cleaning, especially if the waste collection point is a long distance from the areas being cleaned, since the sweeper remains idle while the operator walks to the waste bin, empties the debris hopper and returns to the machine. These interruptions inevitably increase total cleaning time and therefore operating costs too.

The capacity of Eureka debris hoppers ensures the autonomy needed to achieve the promised productivity. Eureka debris hoppers are made of steel and are cataphoretically coated and painted to maximise their resistance to corrosion and stress. In the case of smaller machines, they are mounted on wheels and can be equipped with optional lift-out baskets; larger sweepers are equipped with hydraulic lifting devices for emptying at a higher level. This not only enhances operator safety and comfort but also improves productivity.

On the all-new BULL 200 sweeper, Eureka has introduced numerous new technologies to the world of mechanised cleaning. These include the BULLsystem dirt collection system and LoadBooster, which allows the operator to compact waste as it is being collected and to take full advantage of the large capacity of the debris hopper. LoadBooster is extremely useful in all cleaning work but is particularly suitable when collecting light and bulky debris like litter, leaves, pine needles, cigarette butts, cans, paper cups and the like – the kinds of rubbish most frequently encountered in campsites, tourist villages and holiday resorts.