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“Maybe they don’t want our business.”
Hotel Prices Explode During Native Events
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
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People heading to a native basketball, educational and cultural tournament in South Dakota were shocked to learn that two hotels were charging over $2,000 a night during the event. His two hotels in Rapid City (the Residence Inn and the Fairfield Inn and Suites) are both owned by Marriott Hotels. On Tuesday morning they both listed him charging over $2,000 including taxes and fees. A Residence Inn front desk clerk who answered the phone on Tuesday said the $2,353 charge (including taxes and fees) was not a typo and had checked with the manager to confirm the charge. It’s also showing up on the side,” he said.
‘No one can afford it’: Rapid City hotel prices
Organizers of the Lakota Nation Invitational, which runs Tuesday through Saturday, said two hotels were charging more than $2,000 a night during the event, which runs Dec. 13-17 at the local convention center. Bryan Brewer, Executive Director of LNI Tournaments, said: “I don’t know why they would do that. Maybe they don’t want our business.” Hotels in Rapid City and neighboring towns typically raise their rates during tournaments, Brewer said, adding that Rapid City hotels and It brings a huge economic boost to the food industry every year. But usually they don’t raise the rate he more than $250 a night. He has in the past raised the issue of hotels raising prices during tournaments with the city and local tourism authorities, and the corporate offices of those hotels are the entity that decides to raise prices during tournaments. “I don’t understand it at all,” he said. Vi Walln, a Rosebud Lakota writer who lives on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, was the first to warn others on social media Tuesday morning about the extremely high fees charged by the Residence Inn. “They love money, but they hate indigenous peoples,” said Walun. The native has long encountered hostile and blatantly discriminatory business practices in Rapid City, South Dakota’s second most populous metropolitan area. The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against a local hotel in October, accusing him of refusing service to former residents of the state. Much of it was promised to the Sioux tribes by treaty. “I think the Department of Justice should actually do a broader investigation into systemic racism in the Rapid City community,” said he, chief executive of NDN Collective, a native-led organization. One Nick Tilsen told Indianz.Com. He announced the lawsuit on October 19th. Tilsen noted that the NDN Collective has already sued the Grand Gateway Hotel for racist conduct. Representatives of the organization have been repeatedly denied rooms at the facility and removed from the facility by one of the owners named as a defendant in a federal lawsuit. It’s a byproduct of a hostile environment and a racist system,” Tilsen said in an interview. “That’s why the behavior was ‘okay’ to them. Because we have a culture of racism and systemic white supremacy here in our community. The hotel and its operators responded to the federal allegations on Nov. 14. They admitted that at least he refused one room. She is a “local” resident, meaning she lives in Rapid City. They further acknowledged that their “territorial policy” was not formally written down, but refused to admit to rejecting “Native Americans” for business. does not have sufficient information to confirm or deny whether Sunny Red Bear or the person with her was Native American. A Sunny Red Bear was denied a hotel stay Red Bear works for the NDN Collective.
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