Due to rising costs, your family-owned bespoke travel company must increase the price of your services. Long-time customers could balk at the increases. How would cost-plus pricing be helpful in this situation?

 
 
 
 
 
 

Cost-plus pricing is very intuitive and easy to defend, because customers can understand that increased costs usually result in increased prices.

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