Legal Definition of yield. : 1  to produce as return from an expenditure or investment : furnish as profit or interest an account that yields 6 percent. 2  intransitive verb. 3  1 : to give place or precedence (as to one having a superior right or claim)  2 : to relinquish the floor of a legislative assembly yield to the senator from Maine.
I guess since it's the new year there were bound to be some new ways in which hotels would improve their loyalty programs. Starwood Hotels (which includes Sheraton, Westin, W and others) announced first, and among the new perks are the following: 1  Abolishing 3 p.m. check-in time and giving its most frequent travelers control of their own arrival and departure time.
There was an error emailing this page. Hilton and Starwood will soon allow guests to unlock their rooms via a smartphone app. Starwood, owner of the Sheraton, Westin and W hotel chains, has upgraded 30,000 room locks in nearly 150 hotels so they can be unlocked with the new app. Hilton is planning to enable guests to do the same thing in its 600,000 rooms next year. That hotel chain will begin by piloting a smartphone app at 10 U.S. properties in early 2015. Also, in early 2015, Hilton's HHonors mobile room key app will be enabled at all U.S. properties of Conrad Hotels and Resorts.