Here’s some good information on how resellers are not paying taxes while we consumers are overpaying.
| Re-sellers buy blocks of hotel rooms (airlines seats, tickets, etc.) at a low price and package them for re-sale to us consumers at a higher price. The difference in cost represents their profit. The consumer is charged appropriate taxes based on our purchase price. |
| The underlying issue (behind all the procedural wrangling) has to do with a common re-selling practice. In this case, a number of online travel firms, including some of the giants in the online travel industry, have adopted a practice on remitting hotel occupancy taxes that is at odds with how the city of Atlanta believes taxes should be charged and remitted. |
| The travel companies have been remitting taxes based on the price the company paid, not the price charged and paid by the consumer, claiming that the difference is a service fee/charge and NOT taxes. |
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Here’s a new concept of portable hotels.
| How’s this for an extension of small space living away from home? Abilmo temporary hotel rooms are portable accommodations that offer all the amenities of a regular hotel room, but in footprint of a large tool shed. Features include wood flooring, a pop-up desk with lamp, full size bed, heating/cooling options, and a bathroom with toilet and shower… |
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Here’s an interesting affordable design hotel chain in Amsterdam. If you are short on money but you want the best, this might be a good go.
Aiming to bring affordable luxury to modern travellers, a new hotel brand just opened its doors at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. citizenM (the M is for mobile) is targeting guests who view design as a given, need rooms that are comfortable and efficient, but can’t or don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars, euros or pounds for a night’s sleep. The hotel was founded by Rattan Chadha—who created fashion label Mexx and is also involved with Asian hotel group Oberoi—and designed by acclaimed Dutch architectural firm Concrete.
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Next time you get a chance, you should get some rests on the floating whale hotel shaped like a beluga, a white whale.
Next time you saw a beluga floating in the air, don’t doubt your eyes, it is real! NO, I don’t mean it’s a real beluga, but a real thing shaped in beluga.
This is actually a helium filled craft which function as a hotel. It comes with 60 hotel rooms and a 500 square meters meeting center. This beluga could cruise at 173mph which allows it to travel the globe on non-stop 3 day journeys.
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