Originally Posted by
GUWonder
Hyatt could — if it wanted to — have instituted and enforced brand standards to make its hotels have a minimum proportion of their rooms able to accommodate a family of four or five persons in a given room, but Hyatt’s catering to get business from hotel owners is a more critical corporate priority than Hyatt’s wooing hotel guests with larger room occupancy standards at the expense of its relationship with hotel owners.
Due to fire codes, or min square meter per occupant or ..... rules that change by country/ city that would have been very hard. Especially given that in Europe the building are not newly build on a wide open lot but years old (sometimes 100+ years) when rooms were smaller. And I don't think any hotel would combine 2 rooms just to have the ability to accomodate 4 (that is what connecting rooms are for). If Hyatt would have insisted the hotel owner would be with Hilton, Marriott, .....