Acquiring a Corp Code for you business
 

I'm looking to acquire a corporate code for my business. We have logged almost 800 nights in the last 20 mos. Looking to hear from someone who set up a corp rate and what that process was like.
Thank you

at one specific property, talk with the property’s revenue manager and they will set up a code for you.

for chainwide discount, 800 seems a little low for 2 years but it’s during covid so… maybe. (Not sure how to setup chainwide, maybe through regional sales office?)

Yeah, it's been less than 2 years, and would have been over 1k had it not been for covid. Easily anticipate 750 this year min. Unfort., they are spread domestically throughout the US

Where are you located? I've come across https://www.businessready.marriottbonvoy.com/ for EMEA, but there's probably different links for different regions.

Edit: Just saw you mentioned staying throughout the US. I would maybe try [email protected] (found here: https://www.marriott.com/agents/sales.mi)

Worth a shot reaching out, but volume seems way to low for a full fledged corporate account setup with decent national / global chain wide discounts. Maybe they have a SME program or so (for small medium enterprises) that you can leverage.

If you can guarantee a few hundred nights to individual properties, that is a different story as others mentioned and you would negotiate at property level.

Some TAs can give you access to discounted "corporate" hotel rates. Do you have a corporate TA (Concur or just regular AmEx travel for example)?

Honestly you can probably do better with Googling the code from a big enterprise, and encouraging employees to use one of the above.

I don't know if a business owner wants to encourage employees to use another company's Marriott code. Beyond the obvious ethical issues of the boss encouraging such practices, as an employee, I wouldn't see the benefit is dealing with the potential embarrassment to save someone else money.

This is a very bad idea.

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If an employer encourages employees to cheat in this way, it's setting a bad example, almost giving them permission or encouragement to cheat about other stuff too.

Plus, a lot of employees you would want to hire and keep would not want to be an employee in such an organization.

There may be eligible rates such as AAA worth looking into. Some of my clients are massive companies (100k employees), and their global partner rates are often higher than the AAA rates.

Agreed. I'd be looking for another job. I'd figure if you're doing dishonest crap in front of me, what other dishonest crap are you doing that I don't know about.

Folks, before the mods get any more reports about diversionary posts that encourage "illegal behaviour", let's focus on the OPs question, which was :