Originally Posted by
Chinatrvl
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.
Yes.
Originally Posted by
Chinatrvl
(but they must have been cheating, those Chinese
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The “skirt the rules” dynamics were around before Covid. But the OP indicated something about the status numbers being an issue “since Covid”.
The “skirt the rules” market dynamics exist around the world, from Marriott’s own backyard in Bethesda to Beijing. Not new “since Covid”.