Originally Posted by
EuropeanPete
Someone else reported this was happening at some limited service US hotels. If you don’t want to tell them, don’t. It does seem a rather brutish way of Marriott being able to negotiate better with corporates without any obvious benefit to you as a consumer.
As other folks noted, this is almost certainly something done by the individual hotel and not Marriott Corporate. It's merely the Sales Department prospecting for business. Asking a simple question is not brutish. Not even close.
As to benefits, if I were able help my company save money, I'd certainly do it. Not everything in the world has to directly benefit me. To be clear, we're talking about doing something that takes less than 30 seconds and requires zero effort.