If you've stayed at any number of resorts over the course of your life,you're surely familiar with resort fees, which hotels often aren't very obvious approximately. These are fees you beget to pay in addition to the room rate, or often cover things you would assume would be included with your room rate.
These fees are a sneaky way for hotels to create their rates seem artificially low (since the resort fees typically aren't included when the nightly rate is displayed),and also to screw travel agents out of commissions (since travel agents get commissions on room rates and not taxes & fees). I guess at some point it simply becomes necessary as a competitive degree. After all, if you can't beat them, and join them.
But the trend continues to be puzzling,and we're even seeing resort fees at some city hotels.
It's not often that I think the government is the solution, but this might be one of the instances where they are. In 2012 a law was introduced requiring airlines to improve transparency in displaying fares, or including only advertising all-in prices. That meant airlines could no longer advertise prices which didn't include the taxes,fees, and carrier imposed surcharges.
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Source: boardingarea.com