Originally Posted by
Ysitincoach
This poses the question of the slippery slope of what’s next?
Major US hotel chains have eliminated frequency of shuttles, doorstep newspapers, delivered checkout folios all in the name of the environment and as we know cost cutting.
Now go single use plastic toiletries...what’s next? Linen service? Towels reduced? Bed sheets? No air conditioning at all?
More and more the Marriott and the overall American hotel experience is reduced to a glorified eco-tourist camping trip.
Metering/throttling water and electricity consumption in the room.
A bunch of hotels went with having the electricity and air condition in the room (or parts of rooms) only kick on when a card key holder slot in the room was activated and loaded with a card. That was done to save the hotels money under cover of “environmentally-friendly”. The next step, and it’s already happening in some places, is to have electricity and/or air condition in the rooms kick on/off based on motion detection. That will save the hotels even more money and also cause inconvenience to some hotel guests, all while the hotel proclaims it to be an effort to “save the planet” but not passing on the cost savings to hotel guests or in the form or increased wages to hotel employees with no material equity stake in their employer’s fortunes.