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Half the time when I called the hotel chain for a room reservation they offered a lower price then Booking.com. Think Hilton or IHG

• jaclaz 9y ago
  >Half the time when I called the hotel chain for a room reservation they offered a lower price then Booking.com. Think Hilton or IHG Yes, this is possible in some (not all) countries, there is a clause in booking.com and similar web aggregators/portlas/whatever you call them contract about the "parity rate" where you cannot sell the same room at a price lower than the one advertised on booking.com, expedia, etc.. Little by little Law in several countries has been modified to make the clause a null one, Germany, Austria, France, in a hopefully near future Italy: http://hotelanalyst.co.uk/2017/05/16/hotels-accused-of-freeriding-otas/ http://hotelanalyst.co.uk/2017/05/16/hotels-accused-of-freer... But for the sake of reasoning it changes little as - as said - both unit prices and hypotherical increase in presence were just "invented" and the saving is of course for the visitor so the city/place (globally) won't see those anyway.