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China Trip.com antitrust probe targets hotel booking competition issues, adviser says

By MLex Staff ( January 19, 2026, 08:08 GMT | Insight) -- A State Council antitrust adviser wrote that China’s Trip.com Group probe will “precisely target” competition problems in the online hotel booking platform services market, arguing it could help break a “winner-take-all” dynamic and restore market order. He said the case also signals that antitrust oversight will not ease and that competition has boundaries.Opening an antitrust probe into Trip.com after gathering “relatively” sufficient preliminary evidence is a necessary step to regulate China’s online hotel booking market, a State Council adviser wrote over the weekend....

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