On the Internet rages a price battle between Internet sites which sells hotel overnight stays. for example, For one night in hotel ‘Gravensteen’ in Gent, the prices lie between 85 and 165 Euro for the same standard double room during the same night. That writes ‘Het Nieuwsblad’ on Sunday. xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

"The price system for hotel chambers is similar with the system for airplane tickets.” explains Hans De Coninck from ‘Test-Aankoop’. The larger the offer, the lower the price. And also tour operators compete with each other with deals, which they have closed with the hotels. An operator, who appoints many chambers in a certain hotel, could make the rooms cheaper for the tourists. The consumer group advises consumers to search for the cheapest chamber, but warns that the standard rooms from one site are not necessarily just as qualitative as a more expensive room from another site, even if it concerns the same hotel.

Marieke Van Herck