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31 March 2021
European Platform Observatory clearly identifies how OTAs exercise their market dominance
HOTREC notably welcomes the conclusions of the Analytical paper: “Multi-homing: obstacles, opportunities, facilitating factors”. It extensively covers how and why, despite the fact that hotels can ‘multi-home’ on several OTA platforms, the benefits of such multihoming are limited for hotels, exposing the many ways in which OTAs exert their market power over hoteliers, including imposing price parity clauses and only sharing limited data with hotels about guests.
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27 January 2021
Booking.com and Expedia commit to aligning practices with EU consumer law
The European Commission announced on 17 December that Booking.com and the Expedia Group have committed to improving the presentation of their accommodation offers, aligning it with EU consumer law.
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27 January 2021
European Commission public consultation on Vertical Block Exemption Regulation
The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the revision of the Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (VBER) and accompanying Vertical Guidelines. This consultation is part of the on-going review process which was initiated in October 2018 with a view to having revised rules in place when the current rules expire in May 2022.