Originally Posted by
cbn42
While that might make sense, it seems a bit far-fetched to me. An employee running such a scheme should be detected fairly quickly, especially if he/she is doing it with any frequency. There would be no other evidence of the trip (e.g., meal receipts) and someone should be paying enough attention to the employee's work to realize that the trip never happened.
My guess is that they would prefer to resell the room in case of a no-show. This enables them to collect the first night's charge and sell the room to a high-paying walkup customer.
I concur. I would hope that most traveling employees are subject to some sort of approval/audit.review that would make the widespread booking of hotels for nonexistent trips the rare occurrence. That being said, I knew a criminal who among his other offenses, would book the most expensive room when traveling for the sole purpose of obtaining more points.