Comments on: Airlines and hotels should be fined for overbooking http://www.travel-rants.com/2008/12/29/airlines-and-hotels-should-be-fined-for-overbooking/ Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:52:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Phil http://www.travel-rants.com/2008/12/29/airlines-and-hotels-should-be-fined-for-overbooking/#comment-135668 Phil Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:15:54 +0000 http://www.travel-rants.com/?p=2658#comment-135668 A consumer's time is worth as much as the airlines', or so -I- believe (being a constant airline ticket consumer of course). It really is that simple... fining or some sort of incentive to NOT overbook is most likely a necessity if one wants the airlines to take notice and change policies. I definitely cannot blame the airlines for this, but money seems to be their driving motivation, so its a logical action to take if we want any kind of change to take place. A consumer’s time is worth as much as the airlines’, or so -I- believe (being a constant airline ticket consumer of course). It really is that simple… fining or some sort of incentive to NOT overbook is most likely a necessity if one wants the airlines to take notice and change policies. I definitely cannot blame the airlines for this, but money seems to be their driving motivation, so its a logical action to take if we want any kind of change to take place.

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]]> By: Darren Cronian http://www.travel-rants.com/2008/12/29/airlines-and-hotels-should-be-fined-for-overbooking/#comment-134061 Darren Cronian Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:57:54 +0000 http://www.travel-rants.com/?p=2658#comment-134061 @ Kev / Andy Overbooking in hotels I agree is going to be very difficult to manage but whilst the likes of Trip Advisor, etc, are good at reviews, it'll be good if they could hold specific types of negative reviews, i.e. the negative review was because of overbooking, rather than reading through tons of text. This way you would be able to identify easily which hotels are worst for overbooking etc. Just a thought. @ Kev / Andy

Overbooking in hotels I agree is going to be very difficult to manage but whilst the likes of Trip Advisor, etc, are good at reviews, it’ll be good if they could hold specific types of negative reviews, i.e. the negative review was because of overbooking, rather than reading through tons of text. This way you would be able to identify easily which hotels are worst for overbooking etc. Just a thought.

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]]> By: Kevin May http://www.travel-rants.com/2008/12/29/airlines-and-hotels-should-be-fined-for-overbooking/#comment-134025 Kevin May Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:38:57 +0000 http://www.travel-rants.com/?p=2658#comment-134025 @andy if people did not trust consumer reviews of hotels or think the sites are doing a bad job then tripadvisor/igougo et al would not have user figures in the multi-millions, right? i'm not sure if a professional "Hotel Critic Association" is going to be of benefit to anybody other from the exclusive circle of writers that belong to it. And it certainly would not be able to stop the overbooking policy (if we are going to try and keep to the topic of the post). @andy

if people did not trust consumer reviews of hotels or think the sites are doing a bad job then tripadvisor/igougo et al would not have user figures in the multi-millions, right?

i’m not sure if a professional “Hotel Critic Association” is going to be of benefit to anybody other from the exclusive circle of writers that belong to it.

And it certainly would not be able to stop the overbooking policy (if we are going to try and keep to the topic of the post).

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]]> By: Andy http://www.travel-rants.com/2008/12/29/airlines-and-hotels-should-be-fined-for-overbooking/#comment-134023 Andy Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:04:09 +0000 http://www.travel-rants.com/?p=2658#comment-134023 Yes, Tripadvisor.com does have opinions and they do a great job, however they are not Critics, they are normally fans of the Hotels. A critic has to live in Hotels constantly, I have lived for about 11 years in hotels, I change rooms about every 3-10 days, I am continually in a different hotel. There are business travelers that could explain the pros and cons as a critic. The kicker is this, the majority of Travel Writers get free rooms in echange for a good write up of their hotel. the majority of people on Tripadvisor are on a vacation and only know one hotel How many people on the planet have lived in 5-10 hotels in the same city. They are on a trip, they are not a critic. The whole industry creates a system where people will misrepresent the truth. Yes, Tripadvisor.com does have opinions and they do a great job, however they are not Critics, they are normally fans of the Hotels.

A critic has to live in Hotels constantly, I have lived for about 11 years in hotels, I change rooms about every 3-10 days, I am continually in a different hotel. There are business travelers that could explain the pros and cons as a critic.

The kicker is this, the majority of Travel Writers get free rooms in echange for a good write up of their hotel. the majority of people on Tripadvisor are on a vacation and only know one hotel How many people on the planet have lived in 5-10 hotels in the same city. They are on a trip, they are not a critic.

The whole industry creates a system where people will misrepresent the truth.

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]]> By: Kevin May http://www.travel-rants.com/2008/12/29/airlines-and-hotels-should-be-fined-for-overbooking/#comment-134009 Kevin May Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:57:14 +0000 http://www.travel-rants.com/?p=2658#comment-134009 @andy - "there are no hotel critics"...? last time i looked Tripadvisor was doing a pretty good job of aggregating opinions of hotels around the world. @andy – “there are no hotel critics”…?

last time i looked Tripadvisor was doing a pretty good job of aggregating opinions of hotels around the world.

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