{
  "id": 18212,
  "url": "https://technode.com/2026/08/11/doubao-introduces-a-12-service-fee-for-hotel-bookings-made-through-its-channel",
  "title": "Doubao Introduces a 12% Service Fee for Hotel Bookings Made Through Its Channel",
  "summary": "ByteDance’s Doubao has begun applying an independent fee structure to hotel bookings made through its channel on Douyin’s local-services platform. The combined charge is about 12%, including an 11.4% software service fee and a 0.6% payment fee. The policy took effect on Aug. 10. The fee is applied to hotel orders completed through the channel. […]",
  "authors": "TechNode Feed",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "regulation",
  "orgs": "bytedance",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-11T04:57:24.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-11T05:10:37.351Z",
  "source_slug": "x-technode-cn",
  "source_name": "TechNode (CN)",
  "source_homepage": "https://technode.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18212",
  "original_url": "https://technode.com/2026/08/11/doubao-introduces-a-12-service-fee-for-hotel-bookings-made-through-its-channel",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}