Why ‘earn and burn’ is not always your best hotel points strategy

From Head for Points. Publisher preview, not original Flight Wire reporting.

Many people believe that the general principle of collecting miles and points should be ‘earn and burn’. By ‘earn and burn’ I mean don’t let your balances build up too high. The idea is that you try to spend at roughly the pace you earn. Airlines and hotels love to devalue their reward charts. I […]