A Straits Times check of more than 20 travel booking sites - including hotels, airlines and popular online travel agents such as Expedia and Agoda - found that most of them use these practices to varying degrees.
Of the 12 local hotels checked, half failed to include taxes and fees in the advertised price or indicate that they were excluded, as recommended in the proposed CCCS guidelines.
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