Booking.com Hit With Italy Antitrust Probe Over Hotel Visibility

Italy’s antitrust regulator said Wednesday it has launched an investigation into Booking.com over how hotels are ranked and displayed on its platform.

Italy’s competition authority, the Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM), said it conducted inspections Tuesday alongside the financial police’s special antitrust unit. The AGCM said the platform appears to give hotels in its preferred partner program greater