{"id":10020,"date":"2013-11-06T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10020"},"modified":"2013-11-06T07:48:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T12:48:06","slug":"hotels-for-professional-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/hotels-for-professional-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotels For Professional Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/110613_1244_HotelsForPr1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"447\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Olson wrote about the economics of hotels for athletes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The four major professional sport leagues spend ~$200 million a year on travel.<\/li>\n<li>About half of this &#8211; $100 million \u2013 is spent in hotels.<\/li>\n<li>The Marriott chain of hotels is estimated to command 40% of this market \u2013 more than anybody else.<\/li>\n<li>Hotels can also look forward to additional business from television crews and scouts eager to chat up the players.<\/li>\n<li>Hotels have to cater to special requests of course. Minibars must be locked lest players have a party the night before a game.<\/li>\n<li>One team requires a 9 p.m. snack of 150 degree bison steak with a crustless peanut butter and grape jelly wheat sandwich. The sandwich has to be pre-made, frozen, and then defrosted 30 minutes before being served.<\/li>\n<li>However the market is lucrative and hotels have set up dedicated teams that sell to sports teams.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We wonder if they&#8217;ve tried offering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2013\/hotels-with-bubble-bath-concierges\/\">bubble bath concierges<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Read more about some of the odd requirements that hotels have to deal with, why the Superbowl is important to the industry, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/05\/business\/for-athletes-a-home-for-away-games.html?=_r=6&amp;_r=0&amp;pagewanted=all\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/05\/business\/for-athletes-a-home-for-away-games.html?=_r=6&amp;_r=0&amp;pagewanted=all\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Olson wrote about the economics of hotels for athletes: The four major professional sport leagues spend ~$200 million a year on travel. About half of this &#8211; $100 million \u2013 is spent in hotels. The Marriott chain of hotels is estimated to command 40% of this market \u2013 more than anybody else. Hotels can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/110613_1244_HotelsForPr1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10020"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10023,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10020\/revisions\/10023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}