Spain’s National Court has temporarily suspended the €413.2 million fine imposed on Booking.com by the National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC).
The CNMC originally imposed the fine in July 2024, accusing Booking.com of engaging in anti-competitive practices that restricted Spanish hotels from offering lower prices on their own websites. The commission also alleged that the platform used ranking and loyalty programmes to favour hotels that concentrated their bookings on Booking.com, limiting competition from rival OTAs, as reported by Cinco Días.
On October 30, 2024, Booking.com appealed the ruling, claiming that the fine would harm both hotels and customers and that the CNMC’s findings were incorrect.
The National Court accepted Booking.com’s request to suspend the fine until the appeal is resolved. This…
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