Two articles recently caught my eye: Strip hotels are refusing to eliminate their resort fees, and their convenience stores are using price-surging techniques.

The resort fees add, in many cases, a considerable amount to a room cost, and yet many tourists are not here to use the facilities those fees supposedly cover. As for the price surging, this practice is the more-well-dressed cousin of price gouging.

Tired tourists, at the end of the day, are most likely not thinking of stopping at the Walgreens or CVS to pick up a bottle of water or beer. They just want to get back to their rooms. They pass the convenience kiosk and suddenly decide they do need that water or want that beer, and — bam! — they are price gouged.

If the downward trend in Las Vegas tourism continues (even discounting

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