Hotels all over the world offer discounts on future bookings for tourists.

In connection with the crisis due to the coronavirus, hotels need money, because they had to close due to quarantine, and there is no profit during this time. Writes about it USA Today.

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Quarantine will not last forever, and for those who are already striving to hit the road, hotels provide discounts on future stays when paying right now. And in the end, everything is in the gain.

Entrepreneurs and hotel groups came up with the idea of ​​selling vouchers that you can buy now to use them for future bookings of rooms, food and services, such as spa treatments.

This is a win-win option - hoteliers thus compensate for their huge losses, and customers receive a long voucher validity period and a discount on their hotel stay. So the hotel industry is at least trying to find a way out as it faces one of its biggest crises ever.

Offers can be found on the website. Hotel crredits. They vary by hotel. For instance, Oxford Hotels & Resorts offers such a reservation in four of its upscale hotels in Chicago, here you will find $ 100 vouchers for $ 150 that can be used after 60 days.

The owner of one of the sites that offer such offers, Caitlin Zaino von Waugh, says that you can find very advantageous offers on the site, for example, pay $ 200 in exchange for a $ 300 voucher.

“Each of us is trying to secure accommodations at our own hotel,” said George Jordan, president of Oxford Hotels & Resorts, which has hotels from Boston to San Francisco. “At the moment we cannot open our business as there are no customers, but we can sell vouchers, which will give us profit now and increase our income in the future.”

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Vouchers can be used to book rooms and to pay for food and services at the hotel.

Although Jordan has not yet disclosed the number of actual sales, he said that “the phones began to burst,” as soon as the preliminary sales became known.

You can see the available vouchers on the site Hotel crredits. It is growing the number of hotels, already more than two dozen from around the world who announce the sale of vouchers.

Hotels registered on the site, cover the entire globe: from Akyra Beach Resort in Phuket, Thailand, to Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spain in New York's Hudson Valley. Many transactions require that the voucher has been used by the end of 2022.

Many of the hotels are currently closed, as interstate travel is currently prohibited, and there are no potential travelers. But that will change soon.

Caitlin Zaino von Vaughn does not disclose the reaction of consumers, with the exception of a fairly high number of bookings to date.

Likewise, Wade Breitzke, together with public relations officer Amy Ogden and hotel marketing agency WeCreate Media, developed the site. We travel forward.

The idea of ​​buying vouchers for a future stay may sound like easy money and great discounts, but one analyst calls for caution.

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“Everyone needs to think about how they spend their money. It's best not to invest money on possible trips right now, said Ted Rossman, an analyst at consumer financial site CreditCards.com. In addition, he said, it will take time for the economy to recover.

But Jordan says the idea of ​​selling future vouchers can spark a little tourist fever and raise the spirits of potential travelers who are stuck at home.

“Everyone is worried about what they're going to have for dinner tonight, so travel isn't a top priority,” he said. “But I want people to think about the good times too.” The world will start turning again."

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