Booking.com has corrected its data on which country Crimea belongs to
The world leader in online apartment booking, Booking.com has corrected its data regarding the ownership of the Crimea.
"Booking.com has changed its opinion on which country the Crimean Peninsula belongs to. Today, on the company's website, the information about hotels and health centers located on the peninsula notes that these sites are located in the territory of Ukraine," the Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea states.
In December, 2016, at the request of the People's Deputy of Ukraine, Georgiy Logvinsky, the Prosecutor’s Office initiated criminal proceedings concerning the complicity of the employees of Booking.com International BV in helping to use illegally acquired property and in facilitating the violation of the order of entry or exit to the annexed territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Article 332-1 and Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
During the pre-trial investigation, the Prosecutor's Office notified Booking.com that the information on the Crimea's affiliation was incorrectly reflected on the company's website.
"Booking.com informed the Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea that it had corrected the relevant information. Presently, on the Booking.com website in the information on the location of a certain property, after the information about a specific settlement in the Crimea, it is indicated that it is on the territory of the state of Ukraine," the message says.
Booking.com also took into consideration other comments of the Prosecutor's Office and said that it implemented additional measures to comply with the EU sanctions, to prevent the use of its website for tourist travel to the Crimea.