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Open Letter to Kees Koolen, CEO at Booking.com
Hi Kees, Both personally, and even as a direct competitor, I was always a fan of Booking.com. Yours was one of the better hotel booking sites I always thought, with some innovative features. However,...
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A digital white flag
For the attention of Rutger Prakke, General Counsel and Managing Director at Booking.com Hi Rutger, I understand that Kees doesn’t want to reply to me directly but I’m still hoping we can move things...
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What goes on in Amsterdam gets publicised across the entire web.
This whole rate parity campaign has been full of surprises and never more so than at the eyefortravel conference this week in Amsterdam. After my slight debacle in Budapest recently when two fine...
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Open letter to William Baer, Arnold & Porter LLP
Dear William, I have been reading with great interest your nomination to head up the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division. Particularly significant to me was to hear your stance on resale price...
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Rate Parity – The End Game
I’ve told the press that I think the days of rate parity are coming to an end but, with one exception, they’ve yet to quote me so it looks like I’m going to have to say it myself. As you may imagine...
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Priceline, Kayak and other family matters.
Incest has a bad rep and you can see why. It often results in the spawning of children with weird defects like underdeveloped limbs or oversized heads. Take the royal family for example or the U.S....
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Open Letter to Clive Maxwell, Executive Director Office of Fair Trading
Dear Clive, I hope you don’t mind my writing to you publicly but I feel this is an issue of public and national importance. Three years ago I complained to the Office of Fair Trading (O.F.T.) that my...
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Final Open Letter to Clive Maxwell, Executive Director Office of Fair Trading
Dear Mr. Maxwell, Thank you for kindly replying to my last open letter. Since you wrote I have been petitioned by lawyers, economists, and high ranking officials in the travel industry to respond to...
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Another Final Open Letter to Clive Maxwell, Executive Director Office of Fair...
Dear Mr. Maxwell, Thank you again for taking the time to reply. Whilst I understand that the OFT doesn’t necessarily agree with the complainant about the nature of the problem nor indeed the solution,...
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Closing Letter to the Office of Fair Trading
Hi Ingrid, Thank you for taking the time last week to try and explain the proposal you have put forward on behalf of Expedia, Booking.com and IHG. I still don’t understand it I’m afraid. I don’t...
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Open Letter to Gaucho Rasmussen, Enforcement Director at CMA
Dear Gaucho, You’ll remember that earlier this year I applied for my barrister to receive a copy of the case the Office of Fair Trading (now CMA) took out against Expedia, Booking.com and...
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Deranged Marriages, Sanity on Trial
Next week we’ll come to the final chapter of a story crazy enough to rival Catch 22 and Alice in Wonderland. It started with a call from the Fairest Authority in the Land (F.A.i.L), travelled across...
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Open Letter to Alex Chisholm, Chief Executive of the Competition and Markets Authority Dear Alex, It will have come to your notice that Booking.com has finally agreed to stop price fixing in Europe,...
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