Hotel room ripoff at massive global warming hoax meeting in Durban

COP17 hotel price probe - KwaZulu-Natal

DESPITE vehement protestations from hospitality industry stakeholders and the city itself, the Environmental Affairs Department believes there is a basis for its concern that hotel accommodation prices for UN Cop17 to be held in Durban have been unjustifiably inflated.
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Blessing Manale, deputy director-general of communications in the Environmental Affairs department, who confirmed the inquiry would take place, said he was privy to complaints over accommodation costs from “all over the show”.
...[A government source] said yesterday that he believed accommodation prices were not “extraordinary” when compared to other conferences of this nature and previous UN climate change talks. Last week, 10 000 rooms had been snapped up, he said.

The Mercury reported last week that eThekwini mayor James Nxumalo had urged hoteliers not to overcharge delegates, following reports that some had doubled their prices.