spoke to front desk manager (...) He said it's costing the hotel tens of thousands of dollars in revenue, and a dispute between the hotel and corporate has ensued.
Well exactly one week ago, I said on this thread:-
"My concern is nothing to do with "good" websites being exposed, but rather IHG getting a series of highly irate hotel franchisees telling them that from their point of view they are seeing sudden onslaughts of BRGs concentrated over a day or two, and simply can not honour such numbers of free nights. I suspect if IHG do see such a pattern forming, they'll have little choice but to kill the program, or reinstate the 30day rule, remove the 1st night free component of it, or some other draconian measures"
It is clear that the first part of that paragraph is already starting to take place, lets hope it doesn't result in the last part of it coming to pass.
the whole thing could be serverely curtained, all over one or two guys recklessly driving some hits to their blogs.