http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/now-elite-status-gets-you-free-internet-sometimes-with-marriott/ The last honest travel site Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/now-elite-status-gets-you-free-internet-sometimes-with-marriott/comment-page-1/#comment-20696 TJ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:18:40 +0000 http://www.consumertraveler.com/?p=26389#comment-20696 My company is putting in place a policy that forbids staying at hotels which charge for internet access (although I guess you could pay the access fee yourself if you wished). If that policy also pushes us travelers to use less expensive hotels I don't suspect the company will be overly disappointed. If this becomes business trend I suspect the premium brand hotels may revisit their policy. The chains that do so first may find that they shift some historic brand loyalties - once I have changed brands and established status in a new loyalty program, would I be likely to go back where I was forced away? My company is putting in place a policy that forbids staying at hotels which charge for internet access (although I guess you could pay the access fee yourself if you wished). If that policy also pushes us travelers to use less expensive hotels I don’t suspect the company will be overly disappointed.
If this becomes business trend I suspect the premium brand hotels may revisit their policy. The chains that do so first may find that they shift some historic brand loyalties – once I have changed brands and established status in a new loyalty program, would I be likely to go back where I was forced away?

]]> http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/now-elite-status-gets-you-free-internet-sometimes-with-marriott/comment-page-1/#comment-20678 Larry Mvoi Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:37:02 +0000 http://www.consumertraveler.com/?p=26389#comment-20678 lt will be a slow fight to give up the revenue source. l guess it's hang ups it took a long time before hotels realized that telephones were no longer a revenue source and invested in them because they were a necessity that did not bring in the money but couldn't live on them with the advent of mobile telephony and modems etc taking the globe by storm am sure we will start seeing revolutions that will again right this revenue off and by that time the ones offering free will be the ones enjoying the reviews, repeat business lt will be a slow fight to give up the revenue source. l guess it’s hang ups it took a long time before hotels realized that telephones were no longer a revenue source and invested in them because they were a necessity that did not bring in the money but couldn’t live on them with the advent of mobile telephony and modems etc taking the globe by storm am sure we will start seeing revolutions that will again right this revenue off and by that time the ones offering free will be the ones enjoying the reviews, repeat business

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