Hotels in Germany can offer customers lower rates on their websites than those on the Booking.com platform. This was decided by the German Federal Court, putting an end to a long dispute between German hoteliers and the booking site.
Booking.com, one of the industry’s online giants, aimed to keep the clause that prevented hotels from offering lower prices on their sites than those on the platform, but the German Federal Court (Bgh) judged this practice “incompatible with the law on monopolies “.
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The German federation of hoteliers believes that this decision “gives legal security to operators in the sector in Germany and allows fairer competition”. Booking.com was sanctioned by the German Antitrust in 2015 for this practice but in 2019 the platform won on appeal. The Antitrust then turned to the Federal Court of Justice, the court of last resort in the system of ordinary jurisdiction in Germany. And now he was right about Booking, which in other European countries has already had to give up this practice in recent years.