The Indian Competition Authority opens investigations into anticompetitive effects of "across platform parity agreements" in the online travel market (MMT-Go / Treebo / FabHotels)

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Indian Competition Authority, Federation of Hotel & Restaurant Associations of India / Treebo Hotels / MMT-Go, Case No. 14 of 2019, Decision, 28 October 2019

Indian Competition Authority, Federation of Hotel & Restaurant Associations of India / Treebo Hotels / MMT-Go, Case No. 01 of 2020, Decision, 24 February 2020

In October 2019, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) had expressed for the first time its prima facie view regarding “across platform parity agreements” (APPAs) / most favoured nation (MFN) clauses while considering a complaint filed by the Federation of Hotel & Restaurant Associations of India (an all India hotel and restaurant association) against MakeMyTrip India Private Limited (MMT) and Ibibo Group Private Limited (First MMT case). [1] Close on the heels of this decision, in February 2020, the CCI at the behest of Treebo Hotels (Rubtub Solutions Private Limited) - a budget hotel operator, initiated another investigation against MMT and Oravel Stays Private Limited (i.e., Second MMT Case). [2] As the allegations in the Second MMT Case were similar to the First MMT Case, the

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