This week’s Update features updates on several recently featured stories, including Booking.com’s ongoing payment and fraud challenges and new legislative efforts to limit junk fees.

• • OTAs Raise Issues with Airlines’ Aggressive Tactics.  Online travel agents, On the Beach and UK Holidaymakers, have raised objections with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) over the aggressive

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From the number of announcements this past week by travel industry members detailing their new online small and medium business initiatives, someone must have deemed last week “small and medium business week.” We’ve included a few of the more interesting announcements in this week’s Update.  Enjoy:

• • Google Trial Continues to Provide Interesting Insight into OTAs

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Resort fees garnered most of the industry’s headlines this past week as California’s governor signed legislation prohibiting hidden fees and the Federal Trade Commission finally released its proposed federal trade regulation – “Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees.”  The good news is that both laws appear to apply equally to suppliers and third party distribution…

This week’s Update features a variety of stories, including the latest on Hopper and its apparent ongoing transition.  Enjoy.

• • Expedia Expands B2B Network in Asia / Pacific.  This past week at its Explore 23: Connect Asia event, Expedia announced it had expanded its B2B network to include several new Asian companies.  While Optimized Distribution is

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The EU Commission’s official decision to block Booking Holdings’ planned purchase of eTraveli (a decision that Booking has publicly criticized and committed to challenging) garnered much of the news this past week, as well as stories from Skift’s annual Skift Global Forum held in New York this past week.  Enjoy.

• • Effects of Expedia / Hopper

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We’ve found fall to be the busiest of all seasons in the online travel world as everyone returns to work from summer breaks and the dates of the major online travel conferences are fast approaching.  As you can see from the long list of stories in this week’s Update this fall is no different.

• • Resort

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This week’s update includes a variety of stories, including an explanation by the UK’s CMA as to why it viewed the proposed Booking Holdings and eTraveli merger differently than its European competition counterparts. Highlights:

• • CMA Explains Differences with European Counterparts Over eTraveli Merger.  As our readers will likely recall, the UK’s competition authority (the Competition

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