Peter Crisp wrote:Moggy wrote:500million customers for one of the biggest hotel chains in the world doesn’t sound too ridiculous to me.
Here's the hotel chain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriott_InternationalThey have barely any hotels in South America hardly any in most of Africa and 2 in Scandinavia.
500 Million customers my arse
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Actually according to the system you posted it is not Marriott branded hotels but the subsidiary of Marriott called Starwood (Starwood's hotel brands include W Hotels, Sheraton, Le Méridien and Four Points by Sheraton), Marriott use a different system.
Starwood have over 5,800 properties, that works out as each location having 86,000 customers.
It seems a lot, but you have to remember this is over a number of years (the story says since 2014). The biggest Sheraton hotel is the Sheraton Grand Macao Hotel which has over 4,000 rooms.
If you think about the number of people that book into hotels for work, holidays, overnight stays to be near airports/train stations, dirty weekends with the mistress, etc etc it doesn’t strike me as too ridiculous that over almost half a decade they would have collected the details of 500million customers.