These are some interesting links relating to the today issue of local newspapers, both of them are nationally unimportant, but widely read locally.
Hope somedoby can understand italian:
http://www.ilgazzettino.it/articolo_...npl=&desc_sez=
http://ricerca.quotidianiespresso.it...ova+di+Venezia
For those of you not familiar with the language a short summary.
IHG press office yesterday spread the news that this 0.01 offer in not a mistake of somedoby of their staff, but an act of an hacker who in the night between sunday and monday (late afternoon in US) entered a fake promotion.
Appears that the hotel had more than 5000 bookings (many of them for groups of several rooms!) in two hours.
In my opinion this is totally false and IHG is trying to protect itself against proper claims for prepaid and confirmed rooms, and for this reason issued a press release regarding hacker attak.