Doubao's 12% commission forces me to recalculate hotel accounting

A friend recommended this news to me, saying Doubao has started charging a 12% comprehensive commission on hotel bookings and asked if I thought it was expensive. My first reaction was, isn't this just the OTA playbook? Meituan and Ctrip have been doing this for ages. But then I realized it's different—this is the first time an AI entry point has officially stepped in to charge a toll, and the way they're doing it is kind of interesting.