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While airlines use segmented pricing strategies to charge business travelers more, most hotels actually give "corporate discounts" to business guests. Can you explain this anomaly?

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Thanks for posting today. Also, thank you for responding to my message and clarifying. I will try to give you as much information as I can, although I think you will see the logic is pretty intuitive.

Alot of this comes down to basic supply vs demand. I think it's safe to say that the airline industry itself uses a stratified pricing model that's fairly unique, and not very well understood by anyone. Pretty much, they have roller coaster pricing, as I call it. When you start pricing a ticket anywhere from 6-10 months ...

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