Sheraton and Four Points to go smoke-free in North America by year-end
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The tide continues to turn against smokers at North American hotels. Sheraton and Four Points, both part of the Starwood group, are the latest to ban smoking at all properties in the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean, much as their corporate cousin Westin did a few years earlier.
This isn’t just about the market responding to a smaller population of smokers, or a kindly gesture designed to improve your longevity. It’s also a way for the hotel to cut costs, since cleaning a smoky room is more time-consuming and expensive than cleaning a non-smoking room. And minimizing the variation between hotel rooms, by eliminating an entire class of rooms, makes it easier to manage inventory.
Nonsmokers are celebrating. Smokers are inevitably planning their boycott.
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- Marriott hotels to eliminate smoking in all its North American brands
- The captain has turned on the smoke-’em-if-you-got-’em sign…
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February 13th, 2008 at 2:34 pm |
This may seem like a good thing, eliminating smoking, but not necessarily. I am not a smoker myself, but I have traveled with smokers, and I know a plan like this will probably result in a loss in rooms booked for the hotels.
February 13th, 2008 at 11:08 pm |
Oh well. Screw them anyhow. People should stop smoking tobacco and start smoking weed.