UK Edges Closer To New Discounting Rules For Booking Sites and Hotels
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The rules being discussed would apply to Europeans booking rooms in the UK, and the framework would be fairly narrow in scope. They do not address broader rate parity issues, but would indeed provide for more competition and would be good for limited numbers of travelers.
The UK's Office of Fair Trading is taking steps to ensure that online travel agencies such as Booking.com and Expedia, and hotels such as InterContinental have more freedom to offer discounted room rates, but only to closed groups of their users.
The OFT today opened a commentary period, which would run through January 17, 2014, on the latest proposed amendments to draft commitmen
