Pricing sovereignty for all: Booking.com fails
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2,000 Hoteliers sue Booking.com
Berlin. More than 2,000 German hotels are jointly suing Booking.com. The German Hotel Association supports them in this.
BGH puts Booking.com in its place
Karlsruhe. The German Federal Court of Justice has corrected a decision of the Higher Regional Court in Düsseldorf of 4 June 2019: This court had declared the narrow rate parity clauses of Booking.com to be necessary and proportionate. Now, the OTA may no longer prohibit lower prices on hotel websites.
Controversial verdict: Booking.com may gag, HRS may not
Düsseldorf/Berlin. The dispute over rate parity broke out again on Tuesday in Germany: After a court ruling Booking.com may continue to impose to its rate parity clauses. In January 2015, the court prohibited its competitor HRS from doing the same.