The pay isn’t great (even in upper management, unless you are at corporate), but working in hospitality does have its advantages. It does make travel planning a lot easier.

I almost see it as the opposite.

AirBNB is fine if you are just looking for a place nearby tourist sites that you don’t plan to spend much time at.

Hotels are great when you need the extra features, a concierge, laundry (I have never worked at a hotel that did not have laundry services and/or dry cleaning), restaurants, and the like.

Kitchen I could see being tricky, but if you need a kitchen I assume you might be doing more a long-term stay anyway, in which case a lot of hotels will have those options as well.

My hotel is a high-end dog friendly hotel, we don’t require any additional cost for a guest bringing a room. Unless they order room service for their dog or something (yes, we have it).

We do need some additional paperwork, but nothing that most dog owners wouldn’t already have on hand I think.

Since I work at one, I stay at hotels free (within my brand) so I can’t say I have much experience with airbnb. I do feel they cater to very different markets though, I don’t necessarily begrudge the existence of airbnb, even if they are kind of our competition.

OTAs on the other hand, can all get fucked.