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Are tourist taxes fair — or are you being taken for a ride?
The extras travelers pay are climbing fast. This year Edinburgh launched a new visitor levy, Japan tripled its departure tax, and the U.S. hiked park fees for foreigners.…
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MoreGuilty until proven innocent? You are if you rent a car.
Minutes after Howard Gross picked up his Alamo rental in Nice, a tire warning light came on. An…
Rising hotel taxes need better disclosure. Here’s the fix.
You can negotiate a room rate, skip the minibar, maybe talk your way out of a resort fee.…
These 7 phrases will doom your consumer complaint
Most consumer complaints are fixable. But a discouraging number arrive pre-broken, sabotaged by the person who wrote them,…
Honest pricing works in travel. Just ask Airbnb.
A cheap airfare catches your eye, you click, and the boxes pop up. Forty dollars for a checked…