Just to put truth to the circular silliness, here's what Marriott has to say. Hint,
NSNS, here's was you could have posted.
Additional Information
Travel Industry Program
- Available to active travel agents, wholesale/tour operators,
incentive company, commercial airline (an airline that is in
the business of transporting passengers, not packages), and
Hertz employees, Universal Air Travel Plans, Society of Active
Travel Writer (SATW) and Midwest Travel Writers Association
(MWTA) members, and CLIA agents.
Limit of 1 room per qualified guest per night.
- Positive identification is required at check-in. The agency
name and address must match the reservation, plus another form
of ID (E.g. drivers license, passport, etc.)
- Acceptable forms of ID for rate qualification
IATAN photo ID card (the preferred ID)
OR any two of the following
- Authorization on agency letterhead from a manager,
calling the travel agency directly for verification
ARC/IATA listing, business card, SATW/MTWA ID membership
card, copy of voided wholesaler voucher, employee ID for travel
industry employees who are not travel agents
Pretty definitive and why I told my team to stop using it, despite their familiarity with it. Additionally, when you pay for Internet and breakfast, the rate often not that much less.
That Marriott hasn't enforced their own rules is probably a reflection of the travel economy over the last five years.
Serf NSNS, you profess to be all about honesty and integrity, challenge others on them; call out corporate operators as unsafe or unprofessional, as a group; perhaps you should learn and practice respect for others and show humility. If you postings intimate a poor CRM attitude.
GF