Originally Posted by A Traveller
I'll have to disagree there.
A "publicly listed rate" is one anyone, regardless of private memberships with any particular organizations, can look up and have booked for themselves.
Using common understanding of words, in the absence of an explicit definition to the contrary, I would have to disagree.
"publicly listed" logically means listed publicly. If the public, in a "public" area, can view the listing, it would be "publicly listed". Tax tables are publicly listed, but if you don't qualify for a particular rate, you can view it but you can't take it.
"publicly available", on the other hand, means available to the general public.
If what Marriott meant was "publicly available" perhaps they should say so.
(A purist would argue that even a "publicly listed" rate that has no apparent qualifications does indeed still have qualifications: it may have limited availability, and it certainly requires payment, which means it is not necesarily available to the general public.)