Dec
12
2018
Two weeks ago IHG Rewards Club launched a promotion to give you free points for posting a selfie. The photo of yourself was supposed to be ‘at home’ or ‘at an IHG hotel’.
IHG Rewards Club Selfie Points are Posting
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Tag Archives for rewards.
OpenTable Devaluing Rewards Again — In Three Ways
Jan
21
2018
OpenTable is devaluing its rewards program 3 ways, two and a half years since its last devaluation.
They may start to give up their primary competitive advantage — a critical mass of customers — although not right away, once it starts to frustrate those customers.
New More Expensive Award Prices From IHG Rewards Club
Jan
02
2018
New higher-priced top redemption category, hotels can cost up to 70,000 points per night rather than 60,000.
499 hotels go up in category (cost more points to redeem) while 192 go down, more than a 2.5 to 1 ratio of increases to decreases. Most of the increases are in the U.S.
New Chase Offers, a Hotel in Space, and Selling Off air berlin — Literally
Jan
01
2018
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
Gutting another Rewards Program — Dining for Miles Becomes Just Another Program
Dec
31
2004
Rewards Network’s Dining for Miles programs are being revamped, a.k.a. gutted. You may know the program as iDine (what I’ll always call it), and its precursor was Transmedia — the old program where you paid to sign up and had a membership card which you needed to present at restaurants for a cash discount. The program awards frequent flyer miles in the program of your choosing when dining at a participating restaurant. Traditionally the award was 10 miles per dollar, although increasingly of late some restaurants only offered 5 miles per dollar spent and some restaurants gave miles only on certain days of the week. Now comes the announcement that earning in the program is being changed dramatically. Instead of a default of 10 miles per dollar (plus frequent bonuses), most members will only earn…
