Fighting Hotel Fees

It's not your imagination: Hotel fees and surcharges really are multiplying like bunnies in springtime. As of the end of July, PricewaterhouseCoopers (www.pwcglobal.com) had identified 15 areas in which hotels are instituting fees or raising prices for the first time and, according to Bjorn Hanson, a lodging consultant for the research firm, every month the list grows longer. . The dollar amount is adding up as well: of the $23 billion in profits hotel companies have generated over the past