Michigan Hotel Boosts Business with Toker-Friendly Rooms
While the hotel industry faces desperate economic times and new competition from online vacation rentals, one businessman in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has found a novel way to increase the occupancy of his hotel by 50% — allow smoking, and not just tobacco. Hotelier Bob Sullivan runs the Howard Johnson’s and has remodeled 20 of his hotel’s 155 rooms to accommodate smokers, including lawful medical marijuana patients. He plans to eventually convert between 60 and 80 of his rooms to allow smoking. [...]
