Originally Posted by
Colin
Business travelers make up the vast majority of Hilton Hhonors members. They have little incentive to save money using Priceline or other discount schemes when spending from the company's or client's coffers. Ergo, the only valid comparison is personal kickbacks does the business traveler get at Hilton vs. the competition.
Not all of us are on big-time corporate expense accounts. Quite a lot of business travelers are self-employed or work for small companies where every dollar counts these days... or where every unnecessary dollar spent on lodging is a dollar less in your dividend check. For this sizable cohort, overspending on lodging to earn points of much-diminished value as a "personal kickback" is an increasingly indefensible or nonsensical practice.