Booking.com ruling: how to claim – Q&A with the legal experts

UKHospitality has joined an initiative led by our European trade body HOTREC, and a number of national associations, allowing hotels to participate in a collective action against Booking.com. Participation is free of costs and cost risks.    

The deadline to join the claim has been extended to 29 August, and this has driven a surge in interest amongst UKHospitality members.  

To get into the detail of what this all means, we have brought together the legal experts leading the claim to answer your questions live, exclusively for UKHospitality members.  

We are delighted to be joined by Dr. Volker Soyez of SGP Schneider Geiwitz & Partner (the firm that has successfully represented hotels and hotel associations before the European Court of Justice as well as national courts and competition authorities), and Dr. Till Schreiber of CDC Cartel Damage Claims, the European pioneer and leader in collective claims enforcement in the field of competition law. We hope to be joined by a senior HOTREC executive committee member also.  

The team will answer questions already posed by UKHospitality members on the details of the case and take live queries on the webinar itself.  

If you have joined the claim already, or considering doing so, this session will provide further detail of the current situation and next steps. Background information can be found in our member portal here: https://www.ukhospitality.org.uk/guidance/booking-com-ruling-what-hotels-should-do/