Originally Posted by
Goldorak
This is a roberry for every guest, but at least several chains are waiving this fee for their top tier members. What is Accor waiting to act on this ?
As has been discussed elsewhere on FT, this is actually not a robbery of guests. In the US, resort fees are treated differently from the room rate for tax purposes: The hotel has to pay less taxes on resort fees.
Lower taxes -> lower costs of room provision -> one would expect the hotel and guests to share/split the benefit from the cost saving.
Obviously, another factor is that fees make hotel prices less transparent. Still, I think it's an oversimplification to state resort fees = robbery.