- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2024
This is from Greek Travel Pages but ruling should apply to Spain and give pilgrims a better deal when booking accommodation
court ruling
court ruling
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I think this is good news generally, but it might take some time for anything to change. This ruling seems to provide guidance to Rechtbank Amsterdam (Netherlands) on questions that court referred to the CJEU. The CJEU guidance will now have to be applied in the case that led to this request. Reading the text of the judgement, the CJEU guidance on determining where exemptions allowing parity clauses can be used 'requires a concrete examination of the substitutability, from a supply and demand point of view, between online intermediation services and other sales channels' (see here). That requirement might add to any delays as the parties haggle over the conduct of such an investigation!Thanks for posting, very interesting. For those not wanting to go to the link to read what happened, as I understand it, the court ruled against Booking's "parity clauses" which prevent a hotel from offering a lower price on its website. I read it as meaning if you're using a website like Booking.com to search for rooms, always check the location's website to see if they offer better pricing for booking directly.
LOL, @OTH86, I had decided to stay away from this thread but since you referred to my earlier comments, only this: This ECJ judgement is not going to change much if anything for pilgrims who are booking hotels in Spain or in France or in fact in any other country of the EU plus in the three additional countries of the European Economic Area. Why? Because Booking.com had already abolished these clauses about "price parity" or "best price clauses" for all these countries.See this previous post:
Especially the comment by @Kathar1na ...
To be precise, and this is a quote from the CJEU’s recent judgment:For France, Germany and Austria, Booking.com had abolished these clauses in their contracts with hotels already years earlier