Posted on 02/26/2021 10:38:11 AM PST by Tazzo
Hotels host meetings and events, and generally do not carefully vet the messages that will be shared or the people who will gather at those meetings to make sure they’re consistent with the values of their median customer, consistent with the values of their most vocal customers, or consistent with the values of twitter.
From time to time that becomes a problem, and seemingly becomes a problem for Hyatt (and, oddly, for the Hyatt Regency Orlando) relatively often.
Late Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson said it wasn’t his job to vet the groups they host and that you don’t want a society where he does that either.
The fact they are having a meeting with us and using our hotel does not mean we support their point of view.…Do we really want, as a society, for companies like Marriott and the peers in our industry and others to sit and make judgments or points of view on people sitting in our meeting rooms? I shudder to think that we really expect that my role or Marriott’s role is to say your views are not acceptable in our hotels and that another person’s views are..
Hyatt CEO Mark Hoplamazian takes a different view, suggesting that Hyatt will “apply our values to making these decisions along the way” and that “if a group is primarily focused on disparaging a group by virtue of their identity” they won’t be welcome.
Unsurprisingly Hyatt gets called out on this. The Hyatt Regency Orlando Airport hosted the ACT For America conference which the Southern Poverty Law Center (itself cancellable) called “an anti-Muslim extremist and hate group.” Meanwhile the Hyatt Regency Orlando hosted the Muslim Congress, which featured a holocaust denier on its program.
Now the hashtag #BoycottHyatt is generating buzz on Twitter because the Hyatt Regency Orlando is hosting CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference. Former President Trump will be speaking there. A Pizzagate conspiracist who denies the existence of Jews was recently disinvited.
Since Marriott went super woke, maybe we shift to Hyatt in our decision making.
Wait, what? Of course Jews exist. Why, there's one sitting right over there.
Somebody, somewhere , disagrees with the left! This cannot stand ! Anybody who hosts such an event must be stopped! Perhaps the left knows their beliefs suck and don’t want the light of day shined on them.
Stayed at this particular Hyatt last year for work (right before COVID closing everything was a thing) and it was AWESOME. It’s a great hotel for what it is, it’s geared towards business conferences and they couldn’t care less if a couple people are boycotting them.
Boycott = Hate Speach
Who is going to be the first brave Pubbie to broadcast this allegation to Twitter. Not holding my breath.
P.S. I am not now, nor have I ever been a member of Twitter, but occasionally I did look at the Trumpster’s messages.
Cuba and Venezuela have vacancies at their hotels.
Go right ahead. I’m boycotting Coke and all its subsidiaries.
I’m boycotting all movies with Sean Penn and that old actor that hates Pres Trump
I’m always up for a good buycott (sic), but I ain’t staying anywhere that requires me to wear a face diaper.
I can wait.
Can they?
Exactly. HYatt is mostly catered to the travelling salesman and symposiums, and their business conference rooms are the true bread winner with built-in catering for extra money. Nothing’s changed. Just like a bud of mine who works for a certain Vegas casino hotel, “there’s always rooms available”.
I was thinking the same thing.
I had not heard that...what happened?
We are enjoying #CPAC2021 at the Hyatt Regency in Orlando.
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