You can only use Booking.com's website content for personal travel planning — you cannot copy, extract, or use the data commercially, including through automated scraping tools.
Regular consumers are unaffected, but travel technology companies, researchers, and developers building applications that access Booking.com content face legal exposure if they use automated tools or reproduce platform data without authorization.
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Compare across platforms →This clause restricts developers, researchers, and travel businesses from extracting Booking.com data, and violations can result in legal action including breach of contract claims and intellectual property infringement suits.
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision engages the EU Database Directive (96/9/EC) which provides sui generis protection for substantial investment in database compilation, enforceable against unauthorized extraction; GDPR Article 22 and the EU AI Act regarding automated processing of platform data for commercial AI applications; EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) obligations which may impose data access requirements on gatekeeper platforms that conflict with blanket scraping prohibitions; US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) 18 U.S.C. § 1030 which has been applied (controversially, per hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn, 9th Cir. 2022) to web scraping prohibitions in terms of service.
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