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The Federal Court issued the fine on Friday after finding Trivago, a hotel booking website, falsely presented hotel rooms as being the cheapest availa..

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Kyco Australia CEO Trond Smith says the misleading advertising used by hotel booking site Trivago is part of the “great Australian rip-off”.

The Federal Court has ordered Trivago to pay penalties of $44.7 million for making misleading representations about hotel room rates on its website and in ...

"The wayTrivagodisplayed its recommendations when consumers were searching for a hotel room, meant consumers were misled into thinking they were getting a great hotel deal when that was not the case." In fact,Trivagoused an algorithm which placed significant weight on which online hotel booking site paidTrivagothe highest cost-per-click fee in determining which rates to highlight on its website and as a result often did not highlight the cheapest rates for consumers. InJanuary 2020, the Federal Court found thatTrivagohad breached the Australian Consumer Law by misleading consumers when representing that its website would quickly and easily help users identify the best deal or cheapest rates available for a given hotel.

Sydney, Australia, Apr 22 (EFE).- An Australian court ordered Friday the accommodation search portal Trivago, based in Germany, to pay tens of millions of ...

The total amount of overpayments made by consumers between December 2016 and September 2019, which served to determine the fine, was about AUD 38 million, according to to the commission’s calculations. The magistrate said Trivago had proposed to pay “only half of the estimated damages suffered by consumers (AUD 30 million),” the judge said, referring to an amount equivalent to about USD 22 million. Sydney, Australia, Apr 22 (EFE).- An Australian court ordered Friday the accommodation search portal Trivago, based in Germany, to pay tens of millions of dollars in fines for giving misleading information about hotel room rates between December 2016 and September 2019.

Online hotel booking platform Trivago was fined $44.7 million AUS by Australia's Federal Court on Monday for mispresenting cheap hotel rates.

According to the court’s decision, which can be read in full here, Trivago “engaged in conduct that was misleading or deceptive or likely to mislead or deceive” the public. Trivago’s fine is not the first high-profile fine for an online booking engine or OTA this year. In a statement to the Sydney Morning Herald, Trivago said that it was “disappointed” by the Federal Court’s decision, but had worked over the past three years to change its website to comply with the court’s decision.”

After booking service Trivago was fined $44.7 million for deceiving clients about the cheapest hotel rooms, Australians are being reminded..

“Trivago’s conduct took advantage of consumers’ desire to find the best deal, and the Court’s decision to order such a significant penalty reflects the seriousness of Trviago’s conduct,” Ms. Cass-Gottlieb said. “This case should be a signal to Australian consumers to really think about how they’re booking accommodation.” “The hierarchy of how a hotel appears in their algorithms comes down to what commissions they’re extracting out of owners,” Mr. Munro said.

The hotel-room booking website has been fined $45 million for misleading customers on pricing. 'Great Australian Rip Off' campaign spokesman Trond Smith told ...

Hotel booking company Trivago has been fined A$44.7 million ($48.9m) in Australia for its highly misleading conduct over advertisements saying it would f.

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Richard Munro, CEO of the Australian Accomodation Association, has been reporting dodgy booking site practices to the ACCC. He welcomed the court penalty on ...

“Trivago worked quickly to change its website so as to comply with the court’s decision,” a spokesperson said in a statement. In a statement on Friday, Trivago said it wants to move past the ruling. “A total penalty of the order proposed by Trivago would not reflect the seriousness of the contraventions and would be seen as an ‘acceptable cost of doing business’.” “Trivago’s conduct took advantage of consumers’ desire to find the best deal, and the Court’s decision to order such a significant penalty reflects the seriousness of Trviago’s conduct,” Ms Cass-Gottlieb said. “The hierarchy of how a hotel appears in their algorithms comes down to what commissions they’re extracting out of owners,” Mr Munro said. The federal court ruled on Friday that Trivago must pay a “substantial penalty” for telling Australians they offered the best hotel deals, when in reality they were charging millions to promote more expensive offers.

Australian political parties are banned from peddling mistruths in a state campaign but have no such handbrake when devising ads in the contest for the ...

The Australia Institute said a survey it conducted found 87 per cent of Coalition voters supported truth in political advertising laws, compared to 88 per cent for Labor, 82 per cent for Greens and 87 per cent One Nation. - Liberal Party of Australia The penalty is a $5,000 fine for a person and $25,000 for a corporation and an election can even be declared void if the misleading advertising is so grave that the result was affected. "A person who authorises, causes or permits the publication of an electoral advertisement (an advertiser) is guilty of an offence if the advertisement contains a statement purporting to be a statement of fact that is inaccurate and misleading to a material extent," reads section 113(2) of the South Australia Electoral Act 1985. (It was against the law for a matter of months in the 1980s, but we'll come back to that.) The keys to the kingdom go to the winner of the election — cabinet positions, policy power, and, for many MPs, even the promise of a career post-politics thanks to the entrenched system of political appointments, lobbying and consultancies.

by Gus McCubbing, AAP Melbourne. Travel booking company Trivago has been fined $44.7 million for misleading consumers about its hotel room rates.

“Trivago’s conduct took advantage of consumers’ desire to find the best deal and the court’s decision to order such a significant penalty reflects the seriousness of Trivago’s conduct. There were 213 million searches for hotel rooms on the Trivago site over a period of about 13 months, which was less than half of the period the company had misled people, the court was told. “What Trivago delivered to consumers was almost the opposite of what it promised,” Mr Begbie said.

The fine brings to an end a four-year legal battle against the Nasdaq-listed German tech company, launched by consumer watchdog the ACCC.

That meant users overpaid around $38 million for rooms featured in those offers. The judge also ruled that until at least 2 July 2018, Trivago misled consumers to believe that its website provided an impartial, objective and transparent price comparison for hotel room rates. In January last year, the Federal Court found that Trivago breached Australian Consumer Law when it claimed the site offered users the best deal or cheapest rates for a hotel.