Unfortunately the vermin are infecting stores & other places.   I think hanging up your clothing on a hook or hanger is preferable to dropping on a piece of upholstered furnature.  I've heard that clothing store changing rooms may have increased risk.  
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Bed bugs are not attracted to filth. Human Blood is their meal of choice and necessity.


http://studenttravel.about.com/od/healthystudentholidays/a/bedbugs.htm

... and the hotels ranged from the 5 star Blackstone in Chicago, to a campers facility on the shores of michigan's northern peninsula to a motel timewarped out of the 50's in Montana.
In other words, a good cross-section of hotels across the country.

Mosquitos in Manistique and a fossilized spider web in Wyoming were about as close as I got to bedbugs.

I am being very picky about places I stay at.

...but I heard that those critters can't survive at a sustained temp of 120 degrees F.  They actually sell a portable device called the "PackTite" which is a portable bed bug heat treatment device (See link below).


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Tea Tree or Sage essential oils seem like they'd probably work too.