Originally Posted by
redwood_10
30000....
"Hyatt Gold Passport, our existing loyalty program, has enjoyed very strong growth in its membership base. In fact, after the Marriott-Starwood announcement last year, we ran a Hyatt Gold Passport tier match program to encourage Starwood preferred guest members to experience Hyatt, and matched over 30,000 customers. Approximately 50% of the status-match customers were either new to Hyatt or increased their stay activity subsequent to the tier match."
That 30,000 is from Starwood alone. At one point, Hyatt was matching everyone, including Hilton Golds, to Diamond. They matched quite a few lesser chains' status - I'd have to dig through the match thread but some matches were quite insane.
In all, I wouldn't be surprised if the total number of matches were 60,000 or more.