Is Booking.com in trouble? Thousands of hotels go unpaid

Booking.com is the most popular hotel booking website in the world, but a recent trend of leaving thousands of partner hotels unpaid for months on end has some questioning the brand’s solvency and reliability. This may, in turn, lead to guests losing their money booking through the platform as suffering hotels cancel or don’t honour bookings they aren’t getting paid for.

The booking platform is ranked as the 50th most popular website in the world, with close to three-quarters of a billion hits per month. It is ranked first for travel sites worldwide, second in Thailand only to Agoda, whom they own. Their figures dwarf the second place Airbnb, which receives about 115 million visits per month.

But communities in chat groups and Facebook pages have sprung up with thousands of hotels worldwide…