Originally Posted by
Global_Hi_Flyer
A Marriott executive was quoted as saying they did this because they were getting hurt with adding that hotels with a one-day policy 'were left with "a significant number of unsold rooms" due to last-minute cancellations. '
http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/16/news...nge/index.html
Well, sure, so the way to fix it is to punish the guests. Folks need to stay somewhere if they're traveling and if you're not going to provide value they will walk.
disingeneous corporate statements again, and totally misleading
unless a hotel is soldout the 1-day before when possible day-b4 cancels get enacted, the hotel loses no room sales, thus no need to have a 3-day cancel period as the default. And this non-soldout is always the case 330/365 days or more per year for nearly all hotels.
Plus several of those days/nights for when hotel expects an extraordinary demand due to local event or special in demand date, eg nye, , allowing hotel to double normal nightly rates, such hotels then also tends to implement a temporary far more stringent cancel-7days out t+c etc.