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Old Jan 26, 2016, 8:10 am
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Originally Posted by JDavis625
I'm not trying to give IHG any ideas, but I'm surprised they haven't limited BRG claims to the cheapest room type yet. But yeah, not allowing breakfast rates is ridiculous when they're offered on the competing sites.
IHG can't and won't introduce such a room type limitation to entry level rooms in each hotel, as whole point of guarantee is to encourage booking of rooms on IHG earning avenues and to have guests not book via an OTA which means no commission on room rate to IHG corporate

If or As soon as, such a limitation is introduced all non basic rooms will be better booked by guests on OTA's resulting in a massive revenue loss to IHG corporation from resulting lost commission
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