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May 9, 2018, 11:38 pm

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Originally Posted by jackal

The best guess I came up with earlier was that that's probably as far into the future as Choice can vouch for the stability and existence of any given franchise.

Since hotels (especially lower-end ones) change brands and go out of business with some regularity, maybe past the 30/60/90/whatever day mark, they're not willing to stick their neck out for having to honor an award booking in case that happens (whereas a revenue stay can just transfer to the new owner or brand).

I doubt that the change is rooted in anything to do with how quickly a franchise property can exit a Choice brand franchise agreement.

Choice had data to know what the 100 day award booking window allowance was costing it even before the 100-day window was granted to general members of the program too. They probably don’t have as much data about how much a 365-day award booking window would cost if.

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