Online hotel booking has been a focus for national competition authorities Industry reports suggest their combined share of a European-wide market for online hotel bookings has been estimated to be around 80% and is likely in the same order of magnitude in Denmark. ![]() This strategy-which Nustay describes as amounting to the enforcement of a wide price-parity clause-would allegedly prevent customers from benefitting from lower prices, especially in view of Expedia’s and ’s strong position in this space. basic, which does not allow customers to make any special requests, alter bookings, request invoices, or receive money back in case of cancellation. One example of an inventory plan is Booking. com’s websites and moving the hotel’s offer to other, allegedly less attractive, inventory plans. The penalties include downgrading a hotel’s ranking on Expedia’s and Booking. Nustay alleges that Expedia and are imposing commercial penalties on hotels that show cheaper offers on Nustay than on their platforms. Nustay’s complaint may therefore offer an opportunity for the Commission to harmonize antitrust enforcement with respect to these clauses. ![]() ![]() Nustay alleges that these two companies have de facto re-introduced these clauses through certain commercial practices.īooking platform parity clauses have been a recent focus of national competition authorities, leading to partially diverging decisions across Europe. In 2015, both Expedia and agreed with the Danish Competition Authority to remove wide price-parity clauses from their contracts with hotels. The complaint centers on parity clauses in online hotel booking. On June 11, 2019, Nustay, a Danish online booking agency, filed a complaint with the Commission against Expedia and, alleging a breach of Articles 101 and 102 TFEU.
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