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Old Aug 11, 2019, 2:25 pm
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GrayAnderson
 
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As I've said elsewhere, I'm starting to wonder if we might not get to a point that the hotels would lose in a "chargeback war". There are some pretty egregious cases (where the "included benefits" either aren't included or are otherwise accounted for). The Myrtle Beach example comes to mind: Another user said that a concierge was mentioned, as was parking, but the parking was also listed while I think in some cases you could probably argue that the concierge service wasn't actually provided by a reasonable definition of "concierge service"...so at some point you cross from "sleazy extra charge" to "false advertising".

Honestly, I think one answer might be to convince local governments to tax "resort fee"/"destination fee" revenue at some egregious rate (and I said "revenue" intentionally...you're taxing the hotels' income from it, not taxing the end-user).
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