I do a little bit of traveling here and there in the lower 48. And I'm old enough to remember a little further back than last week. I remember when airlines and hotels began to promote certain aspects of their offerings as being especially useful or nice for those on business trips.
Have to fly to <insert city name>? XYZ Airline has Business Class seats available! Not as expensive as First Class, but more legroom than Sardine Class. Need to get some work done between meetings? <ThisHere> Hotel now has a Business Center and internet access in your room, as well as the dry cleaning and shoe shining services we've always had!
I've never been in Business Class on an airplane. For that matter, I've never been in First Class. But I have flown a few times in the last couple years, and if the airlines are offering ANY seats that allow their passengers to breath, then I guess that's got to be considered pretty d****d 'friendly'.
My travels have me staying in a wide range of hotels, from really cheap mom-and-pop roadside motels to modestly expensive high-rise hotels. As someone who tries to conduct some modicum of business even while I'm traveling, I'm learning to like those cheap national brand h/motels far more than those big-city high-rises. If the wifi connection isn't free in my $50 motel room, then it costs a whopping $2.93 a night. Meanwhile, during my stay in that $150 hotel room, an internet connection in my room costs at least $10 a day, and if I want to use their business center, perhaps to print something out, then that's an additional $5.99 PER MINUTE that I'm logged onto their computer.
Seems obvious to me that the only 'business people' these businesses are friendly to are their own stock holders. Every business for itself, I guess.
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