Trying to reserve a room for a business trip and optimizing on cost. One option: Monday through Saturday: $800 a night. Well that's ridiculous. Let me try Monday through Friday. Hotel's website: "Welcome business traveler! $1,200 a night." OK, well played, well played.
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That might be an interesting job interview problem: you, a web developer, need to identify business travellers for the purpose of ripping their eyeballs out. Go.
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"Ripping their eyeballs out" is a term of art on Wall Street, because "aggressively transactional price optimization" lacked a certain je ne sais quoi.
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The very fact that you’re making the booking on your own instead of through a corporate travel agent with a group wide deal means you’re a less attractive customer for them.
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I think I understand what your saying but, I wouldn't say less attractive. Business travellers who books outside of a corporate program are high margin customers.
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CNBC's 2012 "Behind Closed Doors at Marriott" was fairly insightful. The daily optimizations, responses to weather/conditions/etc., are fascinating.
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Traditionally I don’t think that’s the framing.
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Status is the lock in. Once you're in a loyalty program (even at the low end), it's instantly less terrible than going somewhere else. And if you're at the high end, it's actually decent (so why would you leave?).
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I'd be curious to know how well airline status match programs convert...
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