Originally Posted by
GUWonder
Staycations on the cheap; and when money and time isn’t being spent on airfare and more expensive destinations far away, there is more money and time to spend at the hotels/resorts closer to home. Perhaps there was also a lot of “home office” use of hotel rooms. Add in status extensions and boosts to the rest and it has some consequences. Having it be more of an issue nowadays on weekends? Not surprising.
Hotels are full, and business travel is almost as usual; our team is even back on 2019 level for travel. MICE and Staycations as well as vacations moved to domestic hotels - with lowered thresholds. For 2022, any status or point roll-overs should be country specific, otherwise the amount of Plat+ here is skyrocketing even more.
(but they must have been cheating, those Chinese
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