Since 14 November 2024, Booking.com has been obliged to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA). However, the German Hotel Association (IHA) believes that the market-dominating booking portal has failed to implement the necessary changes for its hotel partners in time. The German Hotel Association (IHA) and HOTREC, the umbrella association of hotels, restaurants, bars, cafés in Europe are of the opinion that the compliance report submitted by Booking.com only insufficiently or not at all considers several obligations set out in the DMA. „Booking.com is still not complying with the DMA requirements. The hotel industry in Germany and Europe is fed up with Booking.com's endless playing for time in implementing its legal obligations and is calling for prompt and decisive sanctions from the European Commission,” declares Markus Luthe, Chief Executive Officer of the German Hotel Association (IHA).