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Booking.com resolves antitrust probe in Japan, while JFTC continues to monitor narrow parity clauses

By Sachiko Sakamaki ( March 16, 2022, 06:56 GMT | Insight) -- Booking.com today saw the Japanese competition enforcer close its investigation into its price-parity clauses, which demand that Japanese hotels and inns offer the same or better prices for rooms than other sales outlets. But the Japan Fair Trade Commission said that the company's narrow price-parity clauses, which prevent hotels from showing lower prices on their own websites, could be problematic and that it would continue to monitor them. Booking.com today saw the Japanese competition enforcer close its investigation into its price-parity clauses, which demand that Japanese hotels and inns offer the same or better prices for rooms than other sales outlets. But the Japan Fair Trade Commission, or JFTC, said that the company's narrow price-parity clauses, which prevent hotels from showing lower prices on their own websites, could be problematic and that it would continue to monitor them....

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