I have to disagree. “Housekeeping services provided during my stay” are part of the daily room rate (or should be). We don’t want to walk into the trap of thinking of daily housekeeping as a “value added service”, or else we’ll see a daily housekeeping fee added on top of our beloved “resort fee”, “destination fee”, and “just because we can fee”!
I have no problems giving my housekeeping staff a daily tip when my room is serviced. I’m not one of those who arrives at a hotel, opens their suitcase, and has it explode across the room with 5 months of possessions for a 2 night stay. I do value a tidy room on vacation and the work the housekeeping staff does contributes to a pleasant stay.

I would only suggest that , as a global entity, Marriott does have to accommodate local cultural norms. What is standard in one culture may be unheard of in another. For example, I’m fairly sure that no Marriotts will allow women to use their pools at the same time as men. To me, this is abhorrent, but it’s the culture of Saudi Arabia and their choice. (Note: I’m not trying to equate tipping housekeeping to systemic, state-mandated oppression of women.)

To be clear, I have no problem providing a tip to housekeeping when my room is serviced daily. I like to have the bed made up and the bathroom & towels refreshed.

I'd like to think that "housekeeping services provided during my stay" are part of the daily room rate... but during COVID and the subsequent recovery, the hotel industry (granted, I stay in mostly Fairfields and Hamptons) made it quite clear that daily housekeeping is not a core service. When I first started staying in hotels again during 2020, I was tipping generously at the end of the stay, aware of the economic impact on housekeepers and the fact that daily housekeeping was essentially verboten. That came to a screeching halt when one hotel automatically assessed an undisclosed $5 housekeeping gratuity for a one-night stay in a $100 Hampton.

The subsequent recovery, in which daily housekeeping is practically non-existent or like pulling teeth, has caused me to entirely rethink my own practices. Once it became clear that daily housekeeping in anything other than full-service brands isn't returning in full, it became my position that hotels are responsible for providing me a clean room before my stay. I'm a tidy guest who picks up after myself, and so the required housekeeping at the end of my stay is simply the essentials that the hotel has to provide for the next guest. In my opinion (and one that I'm unlikely to change any time soon), this is not a tipped service, it is the cost of the hotel doing business. For turnover cleaning, the housekeeper is working for the hotel, not for the guest; and if they're not paid enough, they need to take it up with the hotel.

I treat daily housekeeping differently. If I receive daily housekeeping, I'm happy to tip for it. If I have to lug my own trash to the hallway and request towels or toilet paper at the front desk, I'm not tipping one red cent.

I'm fully aware that there are participants in this thread who disagree. That's OK. They can do whatever they want. :)

The problem in this thread is that "American Culture" is spoken of as though it is some static entity that is universally agreed upon by all Americans. Hogwash. Culture is always shifting, and nearly impossible to pin down in any objective sense. Just because suggested tips on restaurant receipts has been creeping (used to be 15%, 18%, 20%.... now I regularly see 18%, 20%, and 22%) doesn't mean that "American Culture" is now tipping 20%. It just means that restaurant management (and servers) want us to think that American Culture is now tipping more.

(Edit to add: I realize that I'm quite far off the topic of this thread. I'll refrain from going any further down the road of stayover vs. turnover housekeeping. Someone else can have the final word and tell me how wrong I am. :) On topic -- I support anything that makes tipping EASIER... whether that's QR codes, venmo addresses, or (THIS WOULD BE AMAZING) the ability to add it to my bill through the app. But it needs to be voluntary and discretionary, and needs to go entirely to the employee.)

While I get your point about American culture, it seems a strawman. So we can call it the economic system in which the hospitality system operates and which those who choose to stay in hotels in the US participate. That norms modestly evolve over time does not mean norms do not exist. Either way, your comment proves the point that regardless of one's thoughts as to the custom/culture/norm/practice of tipping, it isnt "offensive" to make it easier for those who want to to do so, as some in this thread have (mindboggingly) suggested.

Just a thought.

I don't disagree with you that tipping under these circumstances is dubious. The only thing I would gently point out is that by not tipping, the housekeepers are the only ones who are hurt due to no fault, action or inaction, of theirs, but rather solely due to the hotel management's decisions. While you and I can go to our bosses and discuss compensation, unskilled, low wage earners rarely have any power, so it's not a realistic statement. Again, not telling you that your position is wrong, but rather the outcome does nothing to change the hotel management decision, i.e. it doesn't hurt their revenue or profits. There is a certain economic perversion here. The hotel increases its revenue by reducing housekeeping, the guests tips less because of reduced service, and the poorest, most vulnerable person, the housekeeper, is the one who gets less money. Personally, if the lack of housekeeping bothered me to the point where I'm not tipping, I'd be more inclined to harass the management or stay elsewhere and tell them exactly why. If enough customers did that, daily housekeeping would return and it would be a win-win for everyone except the hotel which doesn't get its extra, ill-gotten gains.