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InterContinental hotels joins the list of those claiming the moral high ground by ending in-room adult movies when in fact free porn has killed the business
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The InterContinental Hotels Group has decided to remove on-demand pornography from every location in its international chain. Dawn Hawkins of Morality in Media, now known as the National Center on Sexual Exploitation crowed about the decision:
We are grateful to Intercontinental Hotels Group for the priority the company placed on working with the National Center on Sexual Exploitation in order to ensure that none of its hotels profit from sexual exploitation.
InterContinental Hotels Group has committed to rigorously enforce a brand standard prohibiting the distribution of pornography across all of its brands, such as Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza.
Free streaming pornography has largely made
in-room, on-demand pornographic services unprofitable. Robert Habeeb, president and CEO of First Hospitality Group, estimated that a 200-room hotel could make just $2,000 a month from the rental of pornography. |
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Hotel room porn no longer makes money so Hyatt hotel pulls the plug to salvage a few morality points
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October 2015
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The Hyatt Hotel Corp. has announced that it will pull all adult entertainment from its guest rooms worldwide. Hyatt said adult entertainment will be phased out as terms of contracts expire with each of the companies that provide Hyatt's in-room TV shows,
movies and other entertainment. Hyatt is following the lead of Marriott International and Hilton Worldwide that have already begun to ban porn from in-room entertainment systems. Hyatt did not explain why it made the decision, saying only:
Hyatt has made the decision to stop offering adult entertainment video on-demand at any Hyatt hotel.
Industry commentators say that the decision to remove pornography has been partly motivated by a
steady drop in revenue from in-room entertainment throughout the industry as more guests turn to the Internet to download movies, games and video clips on their laptops and portable digital devices. A recent study by PKF Hospitality Research found
that annual hotel revenue in the United States from in-room movie rentals -- including adult films -- dropped from $339 per room in 2000 to $107 in 2014. |
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Hilton Hotels join Marriott in banning porn on hotel room TV
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| 18th August 2015. See article
from business.avn.com See also Why Hilton is phasing out on-demand
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Morality in Media is wetting its pants over the fact that Hilton Hotels & Resorts has announced a policy change: They will no longer give guests the choice to watch X-rated fare on their in-room TV system. In an emailed announcement to supporters,
Morality in Media crowed: Thanks to thousands of complaints from customers, and our leadership, Hilton has decided to make their hotels a safe environment and to no longer profit from sexual exploitation.
We want to publicly thank Hilton for its decision to create a safe and positive environment for all of its customers.
Update: Worldwide 20th August 2015. See
article from travelweekly.com Hilton Worldwide will phase out pornographic programming from its hotel rooms' video-on-demand inventory. The company said that it currently doesn't offer pornographic films in
the vast majority of its hotels and will phase it out at the remainder of properties subject to the terms of their contracts. Hilton said in a statement: We have listened carefully to our customers and
have determined that adult video-on-demand entertainment is not in keeping with our company's vision and goals moving forward.
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30th January 2012 | |
| Decline in revenue from hotel in-room movies means that porn is not worth the nutter hassle
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Marriott International has announced plans to phase out pay-per-view adult movies from its hotel rooms. According to USA Today, the company said: Changing technology and how guests access entertainment has reduced the
revenue hotels and their owners derive from in-room movies, including adult content.
Joe McInerney, CEO of the American Hotel and Lodging Association, added: It is a hotel's prerogative, as well as
a business decision, regarding what services it provides to its guests, including those striving to enhance their family-friendly image.
Porn will be phased out first in new hotels as old video systems are replaced with on-demand
services. Offsite: Shrewd 20th March 2012. See article from
business.avn.com AVN commentators suggested that maybe there is some shrewd business thinking going on. Bill Marriott told an interviewer from the Associated Press:
I've always been concerned about [pornographic] movies in rooms. In the next three or four years, we won't have any more of those. That's something we've had a real problem with because the Church is very, very opposed to
pornography, as it should be, and we are for families. But the owners of our hotels were making a lot of money. In fact, the only movies that make any money are pornography.
The Church, of course, is the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-Day Saints, or Mormons. And according to one hotel insider, porn accounts for 80 to 90 percent of all in-room movie purchases? Now Marriott can keep the religious nutters happy by turning off their in-house porn systems. But the
replacement entertainment will provide internet access and a high definition TV for a suitable fee... ...Which will of course be used to watch porn.
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21st January 2011 | |
| Marriott considers the future of hotel room movie systems
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will provide a massively blocked internet connection that can be unblocked only for a suitably extortionate charge, somehow in the name of an age verification service. See
article from business.avn.com
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Following news reports that an unnamed hotel chain customer of in-room television provider LodgeNet was planning to phase out in-room porn, Marriott said that it was the chain in question. But the company announcement also strongly implied, though
it did not actually state, that existing rooms will continue to serve up adult fare while new rooms being built over the next several years will not. Indeed, the announcement made to USA Today actually augurs more access to adult content in
Marriott rooms in the future rather than less. Considering the company's stated commitment to upgrading in-room technologies that will supersede the traditional way in which video and other in-room entertainment has been made available to its customers,
guests can look forward to unlimited access to desired content of all types. The company said in response to a query by USA Today: It is our practice to keep adult content out of the reach of children and
unavailable to any adult who chooses not to view it. We have strong controls in place that allow guests to block these materials. Changing technology and how guests access entertainment has reduced the revenue hotels and their owners derive from in-room
movies, including adult content. We are working with in-room entertainment providers and technology vendors to transition to the next generation of in-room entertainment. This new platform of Internet-based video-on-demand will facilitate our exit from
the traditional hotel video systems that included adult content in the menu selection, and will also provide guests greater choice and control over what they watch across our system.
In a confusing statement perhaps referring
to to existing hotel movie service, Marriott added: As we transition to this new platform, adult content will be off the menu for virtually all of our newly built hotels. Over the next few years, this will be the
policy across our system.
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Minnesota county bans employees from staying in hotels with in-room porn
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A county in Minnesota is taking a stance about pornography. In most situations, Winona County will no longer reimburse workers for staying at hotels that offer pay-per view pornography. Winona County is now the first in the USA to pass a clean
hotel policy. The decision makes employees stay in porn-free hotels if they want reimbursement. Chuck Derry with the Gender Violence Institute claims: Contemporary pornography 90% of it is degrading and violent towards women and girls. For
the board members, it was an ethical decision. Derry says, The public is not going to pay for employees that stay in establishments that support this kind of material. Policy initiators hope this action will cause a ripple effect throughout
the US.
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18th July 2008 | |
| Whilst nutters opt out of tolerant civilisation
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The Arlington Group, a coalition of Christian nutter organizations that includes Focus on the Family, met with Marriott International officials in April to try and persuade the hotel chain to stop offering pay-per-view adult movies in its rooms. Marriott offers the programming in most of its 3,000 U.S. hotels, and the Arlington Group representatives urged the chain to adopt an "opt-in" television system, in which guests would have to contact the front desk to receive adult entertainment. Currently, the programming is available in hotel rooms until guests opt out.
At the meeting, the group presented Marriott officials with 102,000 signatures from people wanting the chain to stop offering adult entertainment. Of those signatures, 9,000 were from Marriott Rewards Card members. Marriott responded in a
letter dated June 26 to Donald Wildman, president of the nutter action group American Family Association, which is part of the coalition.
The letter said the company was in conversation with its adult-entertainment provider, Lodgenet, about the
opt-in procedure, said Roger Conner, vice president of communications for Marriott International. Marriott took no other action but promised it would raise the issue at its owners meeting in late July, Conner said.
In a terse letter to Marriott
dated July 14, Wildman imposed a deadline of Aug. 15 to hear a definite response on concrete actions taken toward the removal of pornography from your properties.
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17th May 2008 | |
| Why do nutters want to deprive people of private enjoyment of life?
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Marriott International is coming under heavy fire from nutter activists urging the hotel giant to banish sexual fare from its bedroom TV.
Focus on the Family met with hotel executives in Washington DC, and provided Marriott with a petition
signed by 102,000 nutters who want pornographic films purged from the list of movie offerings.
Daniel Weiss, media and sexuality analyst for the group, said Marriott has billed itself as a family-lodging establishment, and its decision to provide
adult films to its customers is contrary to its reputation.
Weiss said hotels and motels have been major contributors to the proliferation of pornography in mainstream culture: We've heard from people who have developed addictions,
businessmen, people who travel a lot, who found that away from their support structure and families they were very vulnerable to this type of material. They indicated that hotel porn was very significant in their addiction.
When WND asked
Marriott Vice President of Communications Roger Conner why the hotel offers sex films in its rooms, he provided the following response: That's one of those any-kind-of-'why' questions. It's very universal in nature. For 25 years or more, not just
Marriott, but the whole industry has offered a wide range including adult movies.
Asked if he believes customers would miss the pornographic films if they were not offered, Conner said, It would be interesting to know. I don't want this to
sound flippant, but who knows?
Marriott International offers families an option to block pornographic movies by calling the front desk or using the remote control, but Focus on the Family and other nutter groups would like the hotel chain to
consider a policy where the pornography would automatically be turned off unless a guest requests it.
For some people, that may just be enough of a hindrance that they won't access that material, Weiss said. They won't get caught up in
it if they have to come out of the anonymity of ordering it in their room and call somebody.
Marriott executives said they will think about the suggestions and respond to concerns by July 1, though Conner acknowledged that not everyone left
the meeting satisfied: We know it's not a perfect world that we live in, unfortunately, so it's not a perfect response for those that we met with yesterday. There were some who said they wanted more of an immediate response or decision. But, based
upon the complicated business model and contracts that are in place, we can't simply walk away from it as we speak.
Hotels do not lose a large percentage of revenue when they boycott adult content because they only take 10 to 15% of the
profits from the sale of pornographic films, Weiss said. He has faith that Marriott International will live up to its reputation as a family friendly establishment and make its 3,000 hotels porn free: I think at this point we want to give them the
benefit of the doubt and assume they will do the right thing. We're going to take a cautious wait-and-see approach.
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Pro-family nutters have wrapped up what is being called a "productive" meeting with officials of Marriott International.
The meeting focused on the hotel chain's practice of selling in room pornographic movies at some of its properties.
Last month, leaders of 47 pro-family groups sent a letter to Marriott CEO John W. Marriott the Third, which asked for a meeting with Marriott executives about the issue.
Don Wildmon, founder of the American Family Association, says the
meeting in Washington D.C. was a good first step: Two things came out of the meeting . They are going to look into a system where people would have to call the front desk and get the movie turned on.
Secondly, notes Wildmon, the
Marriot executives will discuss the issue further with some of their franchisees. And he says pro-family nutters will have another meeting with Marriott representatives in about six weeks to check progress on the issue.
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15th April 2008 | |
| Nutters write to Marriott Hotels asking them to remove adult TV
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One News Now |
Nearly 50 nutter organisations are asking the Marriott hotel chain to take pornographic movies out of guest rooms.
In an April 3 letter to CEO John Marriott III, 47 pro-family nutters requested a meeting to discuss the issue. The letter goes on
to say that pulling the pay-per-view movies would be in line with Marriott's public statement of promoting the well-being of children and families and stand against ... such tragedies as human trafficking and the exploitation of children.
Among the nutters who signed the letter are: Dr. James Dobson (Focus on the Family), Bishop Harry Jackson (High Impact Leadership Council), Tony Perkins (Family Research Council), Paul Weyrich (Free Congress Foundation), Dr. Richard Land
(Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission), Matt Staver (Liberty Counsel), and Robert Peters (Morality in Media).
Don Wildmon, the founder and chairman of the American Family Association, was one of the signatories to the
letter. He says it is time for Marriott to put families first: Children can go [into a Marriott room and] accidentally ... access the porn. So we're asking Marriott simply to put people above profits and [to] drop the porn movies from their guest
rooms."
Wildmon says so far, Marriott has not responded to a request to meet with representatives of the pro-family groups to discuss the matter.
According to a press release from AFA, Marriott has approximately 2,800 hotels in
the U.S. -- and about 2,400 of them offer in-room pornographic movies.
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