Posted on 07/19/2006 4:47:01 AM PDT by xrp
Marriott to make all US, Canada hotels non-smoking
Wednesday July 19, 6:34 am ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Marriott International Inc. (NYSE:MAR - News) on Wednesday said it will make all of its hotels in the United States and Canada entirely non-smoking, beginning in September.
The company said the policy change, which it called the largest in its industry, covers more than 2,300 hotels and corporate apartments with nearly 400,000 rooms.
Marriott, based in Bethesda, Maryland, said more than 90 percent of its guest rooms are already non-smoking. It said more customers have been demanding non-smoking rooms.
The change covers such brands as Marriott, Ritz-Carlton, Renaissance, Courtyard, Residence Inn and Fairfield Inn. Marriott has nearly 2,800 lodging properties in the United States and 67 other countries.
Now that they made the change, they will put pressure on federal and local governments to enact smoking bans in every area they have a hotel or restaurant.
I'm a Yooper living in the south, North Carolina. This time of year I get very homesick.
Are you claiming this because of personal experience, or bashing without any proof?
bttt
Check into a Marriot yourself and see.
Your God is hollow.
The advantage is lower cost for cleaning and more rooms for nonsmokers when at capacity.
Unless they are at 100% capacity all the time (which no hotel is), they will still lose smokers to others who allow. If they make the others have to go nonsmoking they will be more competitive while having lower costs and lower unfilled rooms when at capacity for nonsmoking.
April 19, 2006He never replied; and now I guess I know the answer to my question.Mr. William Shaw, President
Marriott International
One Marriott Drive
Washington, DC 20058Dear Mr. Shaw:
What would Winston say?
I mean, if Winston Churchill showed up at the Marriott Courtyard in Middlebury, Vermont as I did last night. I’ve stayed there periodically since it opened, but last night I had to ask the girl at the desk to book a room for me at the Middlebury Inn.
You see it was a long day for me. I got up early to drive to Vermont; then worked; then went out to dinner, and finally drove over to the Courtyard around 9:30 PM. I was looking forward to a cigar.
You probably know the feeling. Successful people do, it seems to me.
But not last night, not at the Marriott; the first thing the girl at the desk told me after she learned my name was that they were no longer accommodating smokers.
I can only wonder why. What harm does it do to accommodate smoking in some of the rooms of the hotel? Is this now a Marriott policy, the same Marriott, I would guess that operates the Marriott Marquis in New York City where I have attended a couple of those “Big Smokes” that Cigar Aficionado runs?
Should I look across the street now whenever I see a Marriott sign? I’m wondering what you might have to say.
Very truly yours,
ML/NJ
How would you know if you were drunk and distracted by the porn.
I know because I am LDS.
I am too. When I lived in San Diego, Bill Marriott's niece was my "regular" babysitter.
Well, they better get over it, because smokers aren't going anywhere any time soon! I think that is what the bitching is all about. Because they can't force us to conform.
So true. People fire up many different things in non smoking rooms. When you have people that can afford 150.00 a night and up for one of your rooms, unless they are in the hallway or their room raising hell, or trashing the place, hotels stay out of customers business. Good hotels learned how to deal with cigarette, pot, cigar, and pipe smoked years ago. If the anti's on this board would stay somewhere besides Motel 6, they would know that. Educated people worry far more about the bedding, than smoke. Anyone in the hotel business will tell them that. Even the wealthy often leave some nasty stuff behind. I have smoked in Westin hotels many times, as many others do. Not a problem. Marriott won't be a problem either. They're just playing the game.
That's funny.....smokers TODAY are looked at as "non-human" by the smoke-nazi's !
So, it follows there should be no alcohol and no R-rated movies if it is Mormon beliefs that dictate company policy.
Thats what gets me. They act like they are going to live forever. I would rather enjoy my life now than live to be 100 and be as miserable as some of these people act.
Huh? What hate? I said that smokers are becoming fewer and fewer, and eventually won't constitute numbers worthwhile to cigarette manufacturers, and you pluck hate from that? Where is the hate?
Secondly, being a Republican means I have to like tobacco? Point this little gem in the platform out to me. Good luck in your search.
While you didn't backpedal and lie this time, nor did you ignore my arguments, you have certainly mischaracterized them and their intent. I suspect intentionally and dishonestly.
If my asking you to be decent and respectful is somehow Socialist to you, you do not belong on a political forum.
Based on your arguments, parents that teach their children to say "please" and "thank-you" are brainwashed PC freaks that support the establishment of a totalitarian goverment.
Your cute Dan Ratherism still makes no sense and does notapply. I know you've been dying to repeat it since it was used first on you by somebody, probably correctly for that matter, but you might go back and ask them what it actually means. Then again, if it makes you feel smart to repeat trite phrases as a substitue for rational arguments, have at it.
I can do that too:
"Gee, your artument is like a one armed man in a leg kicking content and your characterization of my arguments are comparable to a cat in a room ful of day-beds. Um... or something like that."
LOL. Keep it up, I enjoy watching Rather on election night for the sheer entertainment.
And from your arguments on this thread, you should fully support me. I at least wait for first blood, unlike you.
I should get better at replying to specific statements, however much of a pain it is.
Show me where I've been a hypocrite in your citation. I don't see it. I demonstrated *your* hypocrisy in accusing others of whining about being victims, while you whined about being a victim of anti-smokers.
Next, my primary assertion has been that you should consider being polite and demonstrate basic common decency. If you do this, you won't feel like such a demoralized victim all the time.
If that has no merit and does not fit into what *you* perceive to be common sense in a debate, we know where you stand.
You are exhibiting a rather narcisstic view of what this "debate" is all about.
Accusations of socialism, totalitarianism and pc-think in response to a request that you be more considerate in your smoking habit is delusional. Your absolute refusal to consider that *your* habit bothers others and you can take simple steps to be less offensive will be the eventual cause of what you fear most.
You are the one who said you spit tobacco on people so I said you are a real class act. I stand by my statement.
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