Marriott has announced that with support from their credit card partners American Express & JP Morgan Chase they will provide $10 million worth of hotel stays for healthcare professionals under ‘Room For Responders’ program. These will be free rooms that are provided in the most impacted areas: ‘New York City, New Orleans, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Washington, D.C. and Newark, N.J’.
Doing something is better than nothing, but given how many of these rooms are sitting idle anyway it would have been nice to see a larger donation if needed. For example the program Hilton & American Express put together is for a total of 1 million rooms, that seems significantly more generous than this program. Still better than nothing but I do hope that Marriott makes more rooms available if they are needed.
