Every year at NerdWallet, I help lead the collection of thousands of data points on hotel room and flight prices to help calculate the value of hotel points and airline miles. These baseline values are immensely useful to anyone who needs to decide whether to book travel with cash or points, but it’s often a new concept for travel beginners. Here is the recap of this months-long project and how I was able to convert the extensive data into simple takeaways for readers:
https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/travel/how-have-point-and-mile-values-changed-over-the-pandemic