The gatekeepers behind the gate
logo
Magazin • 22.9.2023 • 40895
HI+

The gatekeepers behind the gate

The EU's Digital Act package forces six tech giants to take corrective action

Gate
Digital gatekeepers behind analogue gate - the Digital Act aims to redress the imbalance with customers. / © Ara Hovhannisyan, Adobe Stock
22.9.2023

Four weeks ago, the European Union activated two important digital laws from 2021: they restrict the freedom of action of six tech giants: Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, ByteDance (Tiktok), Meta (Facebook), and Microsoft - the "gatekeepers" of the virtual world - will have to respect customers rights. Also, the laws will reinforce the bargaining power of millions of European SMEs, also in the hotel industry. 

Would you like to continue reading?

This article is an HI+ article and only accessible for hospitalityInside subscribers. Please log in with your user data or subscribe.

HI+ © hospitalityInside.com. Dieser Inhalt ist urheberrechtlich geschützt. Der Schutz der Inhalte ist ein wesentlicher Bestandteil unseres redaktionellen abonnement-basierten Geschäftsmodells. Jede Weiterverbreitung erfordert die vorherige schriftliche Zustimmung der HospitalityInside GmbH. Falls Sie Inhalte für eigene werbliche Zwecke nutzen möchten, fragen Sie bitte eine Lizenz an.

Autoren

Macy Marvel

Macy Marvel

is a former professor of economics and finance at EHL who likes to analyze markets and figures from the global hospitality business. A favourite travel destination: Crete.

dpa

Verwandte Artikel

EU tightens rules for Facebook, Amazon & Co.

EU tightens rules for Facebook, Amazon & Co.

7.9.2023

Amazon, Meta and four other tech giants will have to comply with stricter rules in the EU in future. The EU Commission on Wednesday classified them as "gatekeepers" in order to protect end consumers better.

(c) 2005-2026   HospitalityInside GmbH   Allrights reserved.·This article is protected by copyright. You may not redistribute it unless you have previously purchased a license.Please be fair and observe these rules, as they are a cornerstone of our magazine,which provides you with editorially prepared information of a high standard and with carefully researched content.

{"host":"hospitalityinside.com","user-agent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","accept":"*/*","accept-encoding":"gzip, br, zstd, deflate","x-forwarded-for":"216.73.216.1","x-forwarded-host":"hospitalityinside.com","x-forwarded-port":"443","x-forwarded-proto":"https","x-forwarded-server":"17fef66d9534","x-real-ip":"216.73.216.1"}REACT_APP_OVERWRITE_FRONTEND_HOST:hospitalityinside.com &&& REACT_APP_GRAPHQL_ENDPOINT:http://app/api/v1