It’s an easy protest. Boycott or sign a petition against an establishment that you’d probably never visit. I mean, how many of us still have meetings in the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel or cavort by the pool at the Hotel Bel Air? I’ve never had high tea at The Dorchester in London and I’ve never overnighted at the Principe di Savoia in Milan or the LeMeurice in Paris. None of those hotels take my Marriott points so what good would a boycott do?
No matter how heinous the actions of their owner, the Sultan of Brunei, or how misogynistic and anti-gay the laws in Brunei (death by stoning for those engaging in same-sex relationships), boycotting is not the way to protest.