Does IHG Corporate or each individual franchise set award prices?
Dec 17, 2017, 11:32 am
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Does IHG Corporate or each individual franchise set award prices?
Does IHG Corporate or each individual franchise set award prices?
Also when the award redemption rates change, it is dictated by corporate or the franchise?
Also when the award redemption rates change, it is dictated by corporate or the franchise?
Dec 18, 2017, 2:00 am
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Dec 18, 2017, 2:06 am
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It should be fairly obvious, shouldn't it?
If hotel could freely choose, they might prefer 10,000 points per night - lots of award nights and IHG corporate is paying. A different, low occupancy hotel might prefer 60,000 points per night, so that nobody ever bothers with points and just pays cash (that the hotel receives).
That said, I do understand that individual hotels have a bit more say whether they participate in Point Breaks...
If hotel could freely choose, they might prefer 10,000 points per night - lots of award nights and IHG corporate is paying. A different, low occupancy hotel might prefer 60,000 points per night, so that nobody ever bothers with points and just pays cash (that the hotel receives).
That said, I do understand that individual hotels have a bit more say whether they participate in Point Breaks...
Dec 18, 2017, 7:03 am
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Some nnK points v $$$-nights-rate correlation, but not entirely based on hotels ADR over previous years.. ??K pts also related to room demand, plus capitals/big-cities IHG hotels seem to be pric3ed higher points wise than a smaller town IHG even if similar nightly rate.
Dec 18, 2017, 7:05 am
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IHG Corporate decides the award night points needed per each hotel, and re-evaluates periodically.
Some nnK points v $$$-nights-rate correlation, but not entirely based on hotels ADR over previous years.. ??K pts also related to room demand, plus capitals/big-cities IHG hotels seem to be pric3ed higher points wise than a smaller town IHG even if similar nightly rate.
Some nnK points v $$$-nights-rate correlation, but not entirely based on hotels ADR over previous years.. ??K pts also related to room demand, plus capitals/big-cities IHG hotels seem to be pric3ed higher points wise than a smaller town IHG even if similar nightly rate.
Dec 18, 2017, 7:42 am
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2. A quite small number of unpublished adjustments may happen throughout the year too.
Dec 18, 2017, 12:39 pm
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It should be fairly obvious, shouldn't it?
If hotel could freely choose, they might prefer 10,000 points per night - lots of award nights and IHG corporate is paying. A different, low occupancy hotel might prefer 60,000 points per night, so that nobody ever bothers with points and just pays cash (that the hotel receives).
That said, I do understand that individual hotels have a bit more say whether they participate in Point Breaks...
If hotel could freely choose, they might prefer 10,000 points per night - lots of award nights and IHG corporate is paying. A different, low occupancy hotel might prefer 60,000 points per night, so that nobody ever bothers with points and just pays cash (that the hotel receives).
That said, I do understand that individual hotels have a bit more say whether they participate in Point Breaks...
Dec 18, 2017, 5:37 pm
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Indeed. I expect this is at least somewhat related to expected/past number of award nights redeemed at the hotel. After a threshold, the reimbursement for low occupancy nights doubles.