Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Barcelona, London, on a plane
Programs: IB+ Gold, TK E+, Hyatt Globalist, Marriott LTP, IHG Diamond
Posts: 14,182
Why are you surprised? At some point during the last few years, Marriott started saying publicly that its "valued customers" are the hotel franchise owners and that Bonvoy members are the product Marriott provides to those hotel owner customers.