AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a Tuesday press release the Office of Attorney General (OAG) reached a $9.5 million “historic” settlement with Booking Holdings Inc. for “deceptively marketing hotel room prices to consumers by omitting mandatory fees.”

Booking Holdings sent a statement to KXAN and said the company disagrees with Paxton's characterization of the settlement and rejects any suggestion that it engaged in unlawful, deceptive or unethical practices.

Read the full statement below.

We respectfully disagree with the Texas Attorney General’s characterization of this settlement and reject any suggestion that we engaged in unlawful, deceptive or unethical practices. Booking Holdings has long supported a clear national standard for displaying total prices,

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