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Hotel Travel Going Down, Down, Down. It’s the Economy, Stupid!

Travel Going Down, Down, Down. It’s the Economy, Stupid! Global hotel rates are up overall, year-over-year for July 2008, in all regions except the Caribbean, reports STR Global.  The STR Global survey set of over 36,000 hotels and nearly 5

Marriott Rewards Program Enhancements Coming in 2009

[Loyalty Traveler note on this post at 2:30 PST, 8-26-08:  The Marriott Rewards program enhancements information reported here was posted on the Marriott website this morning and was removed from the website about 90 minutes after I posted the changes

hotels.com WelcomeRewards Loyalty Program

  Hotels.com, an Expedia company, has launched a new loyalty program called WelcomeRewards. My survey of the WelcomeRewards program leaves Loyalty Traveler with quite a favorable impression of the earning power and usefulness of this frequent guest program.  The WelcomeRewards

Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? Domestic Travel is all the rage for 2008

San Francisco, California, view of Golden Gate Bridge I have noticed the abundance of travel articles in the past few weeks touting the simplicity of domestic travel this summer right here in the good ole USof A. Personally, my travel

Hyatt Regency San Francisco March Madness

Hyatt Regency at the Embarcadero, San Francisco, California San Francisco days, San Francisco nights. Hyatt Regency San Francisco sculpture Equinox  Hyatt March Madness or How I Spent my Economic Stimulus Checks for America The President and Congress decided it would be

Hilton HHonors Removes Award Stays Blackout Dates

2008 hotel outlook looking brighter with no blackouts at Hilton http://www.hiltonhhonors.com/landingpages/nobods.aspx Conrad Hotel Bangkok, Thailand Since my article last month, “Money for Nothing (But MY MTV)” railing about the stock market outlook and recession, the R word has been bandied about

Money for Nothing (but my MTV)

There was an analyst in Salt Lake City on CNBC this morning, Jan 11, 7:10am (PST). He was predicting a 16,000-20,000 point DOW by year end 2008. He also says all the sales numbers look good for consumer spending. I

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