mandatory resort fees
The Final Check-Out: Bidding Farewell to Undisclosed Mandatory Resort Fees
Mark Adams | December 20, 2023
By Mark Adams, Experienced trial lawyer and a member of JMBM’s Global Hospitality Group® and Chinese Investment Group™ Presently pending in the U.S. Senate is a bipartisan-supported bill that would do the same. These bills join state governments, federal authorities, state attorneys general, and consumer advocacy groups in intensified scrutiny of undisclosed mandatory resort fees included in hotel rates. Additionally, several state attorney generals and consumer groups are targeting hotels that charge undisclosed resort fees. In response to this developing trend, it is imperative for hotel owners to quickly implement full transp...
Resort Fee Litigation Advisory Group: How to Avoid Litigation on Resort Fees and Other Mandatory Hotel Charges
Jim Butler | October 19, 2017
By Jim Butler and the Global Hospitality Group® Hotel Lawyers | Authors of www.HotelLawBlog.com 19 October 2017 Note: If you are a consumer with a Resort Fee issue, please do NOT contact us! We do not represent consumers with complaints against hotels. We are part of the fabric of the hotel industry and are committed to informing, educating and assisting players in the hotel industry. What does the FTC say is your potential liability for mandatory hotel charges? In evaluating what you should do about the new furor over mandatory hotel charges, it would be helpful to have a clearer understanding of what the FTC seems to be saying on...
Resort Fee Litigation Advisory Group: How Resort Fees Became an Explosive $2.7 Billion Issue
Jim Butler | October 6, 2017
By Jim Butler and the Global Hospitality Group® Hotel Lawyers | Authors of www.HotelLawBlog.com 06 October 2017 Note: If you are a consumer with a Resort Fee issue, please do NOT contact us! We do not represent consumers with complaints against hotels. We are part of the fabric of the hotel industry and are committed to informing, educating and assisting players in the hotel industry. Resort Fees are a $2.7 billion issue — a juicy target for Federal and State governments as well as plaintiffs' lawyers It is very likely that the Resort Fee issue will present challenges in the near future to all stakeholders in the hospitality i...
Resort Fee Litigation Advisory Group: National Task Force of 47 Attorneys General Goes After Resort Fees
Jim Butler | October 5, 2017
By Jim Butler and the Global Hospitality Group® Hotel Lawyers | Authors of www.HotelLawBlog.com 05 October 2017 Note: If you are a consumer with a Resort Fee issue, please do NOT contact us! We do not represent consumers with complaints against hotels. We are part of the fabric of the hotel industry and are committed to informing, educating and assisting players in the hotel industry. Resort Fees: It is not just the FTC. Now there are 47 Attorneys General focused going after perceived abuses of Resort Fees Consumer complaints have been protesting Resort Fees for almost two decades. In 2012, the FTC took its first major action. The ...
Resort Fee Litigation Advisory Group: The FTC Takes Aim at Hotel Resort Fees (Again) – The FTC 2017 Report
Jim Butler | October 3, 2017
By Jim Butler and the Global Hospitality Group® Hotel Lawyers | Authors of www.HotelLawBlog.com 3 October 2017 Note: If you are a consumer with a Resort Fee issue, please do NOT contact us! We do not represent consumers with complaints against hotels. We are part of the fabric of the hotel industry and are committed to informing, educating and assisting players in the hotel industry. Impending eruption of government and private litigation over Resort Fees (mandatory service fees). Big shaking again. Is this the big one? Two significant developments may signal an eruption of government and private claims over Resort Fees — (1)...
Resort Fee Litigation Advisory Group: Impending Eruption of Litigation over Resort Fees?
Jim Butler | October 2, 2017
By Jim Butler and the Global Hospitality Group® Hotel Lawyers | Authors of www.HotelLawBlog.com 2 October 2017 Note: If you are a consumer with a Resort Fee issue, please do NOT contact us! We do not represent consumers with complaints against hotels. We are part of the fabric of the hotel industry and are committed to informing, educating and assisting players in the hotel industry. Impending eruption of government and private litigation over Resort Fees (mandatory service fees) There were earthquakes and tremblors for at least 17 years before Pompeii was destroyed in the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The past ...
Setting the Record Straight on Mandatory Resort Fees
AH&LA | June 29, 2016
The hotel industry prides itself on offering an array of amenities and services to ensure guests have what they want and need from their travel experience. Transparency and guest satisfaction are at the core of the industry's business model. Making sure guests have all the necessary information prior to booking their room is paramount. That's why the hotel industry provides guests full disclosure for mandatory resort fees charged up front. Mandatory resort fees were created in an effort to provide consumers with the best value by grouping amenity fees into one cost. This practice aligns with guidance introduced by the Federal Trade Comm...
