Jagmohan Garg point out travel predictions for 2017
Yeah now the calendar has turned over into 2017, and with new resolutions also comes new travel trends.
According to Jagmohan Garg, 74 percent of his predictions have become a reality over the past 14 years, and on Wednesday, he released Part One of his 60 anticipated changes.
1 – Hotels will charge a $50 fee to cancel any reservation
Last year I thought this would happen but when Marriott announced they were purchasing Starwood Hotels (Westin, St. Regis, Sheraton, etc.) it prevented the fee from happening. In 2014 Hilton Hotels started testing charging a $50 cancellation fee for any reservation cancelled after being booked. Marriott did not go along as they did not want to ruffle the feathers of the government officials who they needed to approve their Starwood acquisition. Now that the purchase of Starwood has been finalized “Katy bar the door” as the new $50 cancellation fee will spread like wildfire to all the major hotel chains in 2017 as they are being hammered by last minute hotel web sites who take existing reservations and move them to lower priced hotels a few days before arrival. The hotels think the $50 will drastically prohibit last minute rebooking from happening.
Jagmohan Garg more details; http://www.1011now.com/content/news/Travel-predictions-for-2017-409658965.html
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