Donating hotel points to charity

Following our February round-up of frequent flyer programmes that allow you to donate unwanted air miles to charity (see businesstraveller.com/tag/loyalty), here we look at what some of the main hotel loyalty schemes have to offer in this regard.

Accor

The Accor Live Limitless (ALL) programme lets you convert your points into a donation to either the Accor Solidarity, an endowment fund that helps local NGOs supporting people at risk of poverty, or Plant for the Planet, a initiative for planting trees globally and supporting small-scale farmers. all.accor.com

Best Western

The Best Western Rewards scheme allows guests to donate points to the hotel group’s partnered charity, Shelter. bestwestern.co.uk

Hilton

Hilton Honors has teamed up with Point Worthy to enable you to donate points to a good cause. To take part, you have to open an account on pointworthy.com, which links to your Honors account. Make a donation of at least 4,000 points to one of the charities, which include American Red Cross and Make A Wish Foundation, and Hilton will convert this into an equivalent cash sum – 4,000 points equates to US$10. hiltonhonors3.hilton.com

Hyatt