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Articles tagged “litigation”

Online Travel

Expedia Faces Traveler Fee Lawsuit Alleging Tax Fraud and Racketeering

Online travel agencies have been vehemently opposed to detailing the components of the taxes and fees they collect on prepaid hotel bookings because it would expose the wholesale rates they obtain from hotels and the markups that the booking sites impose. This lawsuit could potentially impose changes in Expedia's financial relationship with its affiliates.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 5 years ago

Expedia Faces Traveler Fee Lawsuit Alleging Tax Fraud and Racketeering

Hotels

Airbnb and Major Landlord Settle Lawsuit Over Subletting Violations

The Miami settlement could have broader implications for Airbnb when other big landlords take it to task for hosts violating their apartment leases. And, it isn't a bad thing for Airbnb to resolve its issues with various regulators and to erase some of these legal irritants when it will likely solicit investors for a 2019 initial public offering.

Dennis Schaal , Skift | 5 years ago

Airlines

Ryanair Files U.S. Lawsuit Against Expedia Over Screen-Scraping

Ryanair says it gets 99 percent of its bookings from its website in a distribution model that has some parallels to how Southwest Airlines does business. Expedia doesn't offer Southwest's flights to consumers, but apparently thinks it can get away with scraping the website of a foreign airline, Ryanair.com.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 6 years ago

Hotels

Red Lion Sues Hard Rock Hotels for Infringement in Race to Win Over Millennials

There are literally only so many ways you can appeal to Millennials in hotel design, and copycats are inevitable. That's why hospitality really can be a “me too” industry, as hotelier Ian Schrager so often laments.

Deanna Ting, Skift | 7 years ago

Red Lion Sues Hard Rock Hotels for Infringement in Race to Win Over Millennials