NB: This is a viewpoint from Dorian Harris, founder of hotel booking site Skoosh.
A UK competition regulator, The Office of Fair Trading (OFT), is being kept busy in the travel space right now.
One division is acting on my own complaint that online travel agencies are conspiring to preclude price competition through the enforcement of uniform pricing or “rate parity”, and another is looking into the $1.8 billion acquisition of US price comparison site Kayak by the hotel industry giant, Priceline.
Read full story at: http://www.tnooz.com/2013/03/20/news/why-the-priceline-plan-to-buy-kayak-should-be-investigated-by-regulators/
