Overview

• Over 10,000 hotels from across Europe have joined a collective lawsuit filed in Amsterdam to seek damages for 2004–2024 price-parity restrictions.
• The action is coordinated by the Hotel Claims Alliance and backed by Hotrec and more than 30 national hotel associations, including the German IHA.
• Claimants base their suit on the European Court of Justice’s autumn 2024 decision declaring best-price clauses unlawful and the Digital Markets Act’s 2024 abolition of those requirements.
• Booking.com denies having received a formal complaint and disputes both the legal basis and the characterization of the mass action as an official filing.
• Organizers have extended the deadline for hotels to join the proceedings to August 29, with further participation still trending upward daily.