Expedia Inc., Starwood Hotels (HOT) & Resorts Worldwide Inc. and Marriott International Inc. (MAR), are among a group of online travel sites and hotels accused of conspiring to fix prices for hotel rooms.
The sites and hotels are named in a complaint filed today in federal court in San Francisco on behalf of hotel-room purchasers nationwide. The plaintiffs, one a resident of Chicago, the other of Cedar Falls, Iowa, seek unspecified damages and a court order to end the alleged price fixing.