Online travel companies do not meet the threshold to be called gatekeepers under the European Digital Markets Act (DMA) – at least for now.
Digital gatekeepers are large companies that are an access point for consumers and are able to use their market position and power in a way that impacts other markets. Today the European Commission published its first list of companies that meet the criteria.
On the list are Google-parent Alpha, Facebook-parent Meta, Apple, Amazon, Tiktok-parent Bytedance, Microsoft and Samsung. Companies had until midnight on July 3 to notify the Commission as to whether they believed they met the threshold of a gatekeeper.
