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Booking.com Spanish hotel-platform contracting and ranking sanction

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Company / service provider
Booking.com B.V.
Service
Accommodation booking
Country
Spain

الحادثة

The Spanish competition authority, CNMC, examined conditions applied by Booking.com to hotels operating in Spain. Its July 30, 2024 announcement said that particular terms could limit hotels’ commercial freedom and that platform ranking or visibility mechanisms favored certain activities linked to Booking.com. CNMC imposed a competition-law fine of EUR 413.24 million and ordered specified behavioral changes. This is a Spanish administrative decision about the listed market practices; it is not the same event as the…

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