Priceline Group Inc.'s Booking.com settled antitrust probes in France, Sweden and Italy by agreeing to drop clauses preventing hotels from offering lower room prices on competing online travel services.
Hotels will be able to offer rooms on websites that compete with Booking.com at any price, the French Competition Authority said in a statement on Tuesday. Booking.com could still force the hotels to offer the same prices on their own websites but could not dictate the rates for guests who use other sales channels, such as the phone.
“This set of commitments is a nice balance: the hotels win in this ...
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