Two-thirds of EU travel websites mislead on prices: Commission

Two-thirds of travel booking websites provide misleading information on prices and so breached EU consumer protection rules, the EC said Friday. In its survey of 352 online travel booking and comparison services, it found a third of the websites displayed initial prices which were not the final prices and in a fifth of the cases promotional offers were not really available. About 1 in 4 websites also misled consumers by saying there were only a limited amount of seats or rooms left at a certain price, when this often only applied to the website in question. The Commission did not name any of the companies surveyed in its screening of websites across the bloc in Oct 2016. The EU executive said the websites that were in breach of EU consumer protection rules and could take legal action if the companies failed to improve. <br/>