{"id":436,"date":"2011-11-21T03:45:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T03:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/blog\/?p=436"},"modified":"2011-11-21T03:45:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T03:45:35","slug":"points-points-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/21\/points-points-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Points, Points, Points!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-437 alignleft\" title=\"AirMilesTravel\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/hl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/AirMilesTravel-300x300.jpg\" \/>I recently downloaded the Award Wallet application for my iPad2 and was dazzled not at the app specifically, but at the oodles and oodles of hotel and rewards points I had accrued over the years without ever knowing it!\u00a0 I know you must be asking yourself why someone in my profession might not know he was accruing points when it\u2019s so closely related to my full time job.\u00a0 But in truth, I never ask about or ask for points when I\u2019m booking meetings.\u00a0 I collect a commission which I think, in most cases, amply and adequately covers my service.\u00a0 The hotel points I always defer to my end users.\u00a0 However, in so many cases, my end users are forbidden to collect points, particularly for meetings, and as a result, in a number of cases, unbeknownst to me, these points have defaulted to me.\u00a0<!--more-->Hooray!\u00a0 Folks, hotel points are tremendously valuable.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always been an advocate for airline miles \u2013 mostly because this is often the priciest part of personal travel.\u00a0 Flying for \u201cfree\u201d seems like the deal of a lifetime if and when you\u2019re able to circumvent the tribulations of the \u201cno-storm\u201d and actually get dates on which airline miles are valid.\u00a0 But hotel points, and any other awards systems can be equally valid in a pinch.\u00a0 Some brands even remove blackout dates and simply adjust the number of points required in order to glean a reward.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who travels should make doubly certain that nary a flight nor a hotel stay goes by without making sure you\u2019re accumulating some type of point for it.\u00a0 Otherwise, what is the point(s)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently downloaded the Award Wallet application for my iPad2 and was dazzled not at the app specifically, but at the oodles and oodles of hotel and rewards points I had accrued over the years without ever knowing it!\u00a0 I know you must be asking yourself why someone in my profession might not know he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Points, Points, Points! 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