Mileage earning tips

Over the past several years, Choice’s recurring promotional offer has been 8,000 points after two stays.

Hyatt’s latest points offer is a repeat of the bonus promotion in place earlier this year. For frequent travelers, that’s a good thing. For infrequent travelers, not so much.

While American’s AAdvantage program and US Airways’ Dividend Miles program were consolidated into a single program more than a year ago, following the American-US Airways merger, the question of which of the two programs’ credit-card partnerships would remain in place was left unresolved. Would it be Citi, which has issued co-branded AAdvantage cards since 1987? Or would it be Barclays, the issuer of Dividend Miles cards?

Hilton’s next points promotion is an extension of its current promotion, which was highly rated for simplicity but offered mediocre value.

Airbnb differs in many ways from traditional hotel chains. Among the differences: Whereas every major hotel group has a robust loyalty program, Airbnb has none. But that may be set to change.

Fresh on the heels of Carlson Rezidor’s rebranding as the Radisson Hotel Group and the relaunch of Club Carlson as Radisson Rewards, Radisson has launched its first-of-the-year global promotion.

In the conviction that more earning and redemption opportunities are always better, travel-loyalty programs have cobbled together relationships with businesses of every imaginable stripe, allowing program members to pad their mileage accounts with mortgage loans, online shopping, vehicle purchases, and on, and on.