Company Editor

"booking-holdings": {
    "names": [
        "Booking  Holdings",
        "Booking Holdings Inc."
    ],
    "comment": "Booking Holdings is a global online travel conglomerate which has been implicated in anti‑competitive collusion and unfair pricing practices [1][2][3]. It has been criticized for failing to pay small hotels while distributing billions to shareholders and seeking pandemic government aid [4][5], and for operating in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank [6][7].",
    "sources": {
        "1": "https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20140402153926/http://www.oft.gov.uk/OFTwork/competition-act-and-cartels/ca98/closure/online-booking/",
        "2": "https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-tourism-booking-idUSKBN1701XC",
        "3": "https://gulfnews.com/travel/only-one-room-left-bookingcom-faces-massive-lawsuits-over-anti-competitive-practices-market-abuse-deceptive-pricing-fabricated-scarcity-tactics-1.500230124",
        "4": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/oct/03/bookingcom-makes-a-fortune-so-why-is-it-leaving-its-bills-to-small-hotels-unpaid",
        "5": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-24/tech-firm-s-call-for-help-draws-public-outcry-policy-rethink",
        "6": "https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25542",
        "7": "https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/132249-is-booking-com-profiting-from-war-crimes-in-palestine.html"
    },
    "sourceNotes": {
        "1": "anticompetetive collusion",
        "2": "Booking.com was accused of violating Turkish competition law through unfair, anti‑competitive practices against travel agencies.",
        "3": "unfair pricing practices",
        "4": "failing to pay small hotels while paying shareholders billions",
        "5": "asked for government financial support during pandemic while paying shareholders billions",
        "6": "conducted operations in illegal israeli settlements in the west bank",
        "7": "conducted operations in illegal israeli settlements in the west bank"
    },
    "tags": [
        "travel",
        "tech"
    ],
    "score": 34,
    "ownedBy": [],
    "logoUrl": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Booking_Holdings_Inc._Logo.svg",
    "siteUrl": "http://bookingholdings.com/",
    "updatedAt": "2025-09-14T16:24:42.245Z"
},