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Eva Dignös
Sometimes it’s two euros, sometimes eight euros per night – on more and more hotel bills there is a new item, the so-called energy flat rate. In this way, the companies pass on the high costs for gas and electricity to their guests. In a recent survey by the German Hotel and Restaurant Association, almost 40 percent of companies rated the cost development in the energy sector as “threatening their very existence”. Spending on electricity and gas has often more than doubled.