Overview
Eu Travel Tech is a European travel tech organization headquartered in Brussels. The organization publishes policy positions, news, and analysis on topics including EU regulations affecting travel, rail ticketing, and short-term rental data availability.
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- Today marks a real milestone for competition online: after a long wait, the European Commission has found Google in breach of the Digital Markets Act's self-preferencing ban and fined it €460 million for favoring its own services on Google Search results pages. For years, eu travel tech and many others have pointed out this problem: Google gives its own travel services, for example in flights, hotels and Things To Do, more prominent, attractive placement, while specialized travel platforms are pushed further down the page. The
- A multimodal transport platform is a platform selling services across one transport mode. Multimodal = one mode of transport. Surprising, isn't it? This is the starting point of the proposal for a Regulation on Multimodal Booking. And it lays out well the logical shortcomings of the text. Indeed, the Commission's proposed Multimodal Booking Regulation promises to make multimodal travel easier to find and book. But it does the opposite while not being about multimodality at all. In our new op-ed, we unpack why this is a
- The EU calls it the Rail Ticketing Regulation. It should be the Multimodal Ticketing Regulation. More than a third of European passengers struggle to find, compare and combine travel options across modes. The reason isn't technology — independent platforms already exist. It's competition. Dominant carriers, airlines or railways, don't want their full offers showing up where travellers can compare them. Competition authorities have seen it clearly: action against Deutsche Bahn, SJ, Finnair, SNCF and Renfe — and a record
- What is a camel? A horse designed by a technical committee. This old French joke captures perfectly what the European Commission delivered on 13 May with its Passenger Package. The stated goal: make multimodal travel easier for European passengers. The result: a package that is "multimodal" in name only — and that risks closing off the very prospects it claims to open. In my latest op-ed, I break down how we got here: → How the Rail Ticketing Regulation misses the mark on genuine multimodal access → Why the Multimodal Booking
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