Originally Posted by
Pausanias
I didn't mean to imply that a chain hotel like the Gritti is a bad hotel. I meant that it might be nicer to spend your money with a locally owned business rather than a global US corporation.
Most hotels are not locally owned either. You are conflating ownership with management. The Gritti is locally managed but owned by Qatar. I think you’ll discover that most of the independent hotels you assume must be locally owned are actually owned by global or foreign corporations and entities.