A union of French hoteliers is taking legal action against user review giant TripAdvisor and parent company Expedia over what it calls “unfair commercial practices”.
The Synhorcat group filed a lawsuit at the Commercial Court in Paris last week with a raft of claims against the two companies and sister site Hotels.com.
The deposition is pretty fierce and cannot be corroborated at present.
“Visitors to these websites, hotel guests and hospitality professionals today are deceived by false information provided on these sites, ‘pirates of the canvas’.
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