‘Boycott Hyatt’

Just last week I was in Waikiki, Oahu (Hawai’i) and in the bus I saw the following ad:

I suppose they meant Hyatt in general and the Hyatt from Waikiki in particular.

I wonder, how many people who stayed there saw the ad, not to mention that if you see it for the first time while in a bus in Honolulu it is too late to do anything (i.e. too expensive) even if you are sympathetic to the cause of the hotel workers (more details on the site www.boycotthyatt.org).

A more effective use of the money for the ad would have been a site visited by travellers, even if I suspect no-one wants to upset big hotel chains that might spend on the same sites more money with advertising than the unions could or would.

And a piece of trivia: you can read here where the word ‘boycott’ comes from.