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Local taxes and resort fees, in every price you show
UK pricing rules say the price you advertise must include the unavoidable local taxes and fees your customers will pay, even when they pay them at the hotel. Local Fees works them out and adds them to your prices automatically.
By Top Dog Travel Systems. Already running for Top Dog customers, and available to any travel business, whatever system you use.
Why it matters now
The rule
Under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024, the price you advertise must include every fee your customer can't avoid. The CMA's price transparency guidance names local taxes, tourist taxes and resort fees, including those paid at the hotel in another currency.
The risk
Since April 2025 the CMA can fine businesses directly for breaking consumer law, up to 10% of global turnover, without going to court.
The work
Thousands of hotels, local tax rules that differ by city and season, and rates that change. Keeping that current by hand, across every price you show, doesn't scale.
The answer
Local Fees holds the fees, keeps them current and adds them to your prices automatically, wherever you sell.
How it works
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Find the fees
From supplier data, your own team's entries, or the AI Assistant, which researches fees worldwide and re-checks them on a schedule.
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Add them to your prices
Fees are converted at current exchange rates and included in the headline price, "from" prices too.
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Show what's paid when
At booking, customers see what they pay you now and what they pay at the hotel, so the total never surprises them.
Three ways to use it
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Dashboard
Record and manage fees yourself in the Local Fees dashboard, and apply them to every price automatically.
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With supplier data
Fee data from the suppliers you work with, where we hold it, alongside your own entries.
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With supplier data and the AI Assistant
Worldwide research to fill the gaps, and scheduled checks to keep every fee current.
Works wherever you sell
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In the Interactive Reservations System
Built in for Top Dog customers. Fees flow into quotes, bookings and documents.
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On Top Dog websites
Headline prices on Universal Websites include local fees automatically.
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On any other website
The Local Fees API works with any website or booking system, whoever built it.
Questions
Do we need the Reservations System to use Local Fees?
No. The Local Fees API works with any website or booking system. Top Dog customers get it built in.
Is this legal advice?
No. Local Fees gives you the fee data and the tools to show compliant prices. Take your own advice on how the rules apply to your business.
Where can I see coverage and pricing?
On localfees.co.uk.