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February 19, 2011

Booking Travel Online May be Costing States Half a Billion in Revenue

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By MEG WAGNER, ABC News

You’re planning a trip. You log onto your favorite travel-booking site, pull out your credit card, type in your name, address, security code. Not all of that goes to the hotel, of course. A commission of $25 is probably going to the travel site. But it’s that commission, that extra $25, that may be costing states across the country millions and millions in revenue — at a time when states are facing massive budget deficits.

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/booking-travel-online-costing-states-half-billion-revenue/story?id=12845262

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