Less than two months after a major change there won't be the data to discern changes in trends anyway. It really doesn't matter what Doyle or Daniels say at this point, they're supporting the strategy, and the second question reflects poorly on the questioner. You can ask if there is an effect on bookings without making snide comments about influential blogs. Given the importance of blogs in driving traffic to the partners, it's arguably a very unwise thing to do.

Really you have to segment the bookings anyway. As was mentioned, bookings are certainly coming in to support status retention, but the period for April 25 on are more important than those up to that point. The external evidence is that one sale has swiftly followed a preceding one, so let's see how it plays out as we get beyond the final year retention. Holidays - particularly chunky ones - are booked quite far out; I will certainly be cancelling the one I'd booked, so as Daniels himself says "it's early days".

Did anyone ask about the detail of how other earning opportunities would work?