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Retail price maintenance. 6A. Jade Ho (17) Natalie Hui (18). Summary of the news. In 2010, UK’s Office of Fair Trading investigate allegations of resale price maintenance in the hotel industry. Nowadays, the sale of hotel rooms over the internet has become popular
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Retail price maintenance 6A Jade Ho (17) Natalie Hui (18)
Summary of the news • In 2010, UK’s Office of Fair Trading investigate allegations of resale price maintenance in the hotel industry
Nowadays, the sale of hotel rooms over the internet has become popular • The hotels have been forcing those websites (in this case, skoosh.com) to set the price at the “cheapest” minimum resale prices
Skoosh.com either have to raise prices or take the hotels off their list You have to set according to our suggested price! Otherwise, we’re not supplying rooms to you! Hotels Skoosh.com (hotel rooms retailing website)
Effects Under resale price maintenance, hotels themselves imposed a minimum price on online hotel room sales