According to the Russian Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS), Booking.com travel aggregator asked other hotels and hostels to list the same prices on other reservation sites as it does on its own site, and also enforced interaction conditions with closed groups of customers.
The competition watchdog had warned the company about the practice and asked to remedy the violation in a month’s time, but it didn’t respond.
Earlier, FAS asked Booking.com to exclude conditions under which Russian hotels cannot offer lower prices than that the travel aggregator.