Federal Trade Commission banning ‘junk fees’ for live events, hotels

Many of us have seen what looks like a great deal on concert tickets or a hotel room only to get to the checkout and discover it’s not such a great deal after all because of junk fees.

A new federal rule finalized Tuesday should fix that.

“Junk fees” include things like “resort fees” and “convenience fees,” but thanks to the Federal Trade Commission’s new rule, those fees will be banned come the spring.

Concert tickets are just one of the offenders of so-called “junk fees.” Those are the fees…