What Is Starwood Preferred Guest? Legacy & Bonvoy Merger

Starwood Preferred Guest, or SPG, was a hotel loyalty program that launched in 1999 and was later discontinued as a standalone program when Marriott folded it into Marriott Bonvoy in 2019. To understand what Starwood Preferred Guest is today, the practical answer is simple: it was a highly regarded hotel loyalty program, but it no longer exists on its own. That confusion is common because many travelers still talk...