Originally Posted by ryanp

I would completely rule out that hotels have any say over award night inventory in the short run. Over short time horizons, the compensation a hotel receives from IHG for alternative award inventories is essentially known. If you then let the hotel decide how much award inventory to release, you'd be making the hotel a monopolist. It would maximize its rent at the great cost of IHG. IHG would never allow that.

I assume hotels and IHG agree over award inventory as well as the compensation schedule far out in advance. The rev par manager then cannot change the award inventory unilaterally (he'd require IHG's explicit agreement).