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Consumer and business travel advocates urge FTC action on hotel price advertising

Dennis Schaal

Skift Take

There is no reason for a hotel to leave out a mandatory fee when advertising the price of a room. It's time for the FTC to crack down.

Hotels have been playing fast and loose with gotcha fees for too long and now consumer and business travel advocates are urging the Federal Trade Commission to end the practice. The fees in question include mandatory resort, housekeeping, and Internet access fees, among others, which aren't included in the initial, advertised base price of the room, but appear at booking or even at hotel checkout. Columnist Ed Perkins, Consumer Travel Alliance executive director Charlie Leocha, and Business Travel Coalition chairman Kevin Mitchell penned a letter to FTC chairman Jon Leibowitz demanding an end to these "unfair and deceptive pri

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