Supplier contracts
Your sellers upload content and rates that you distribute, but who is liable when they fail?
Contracts with hotels, bedbanks and wholesalers: content licences, SLAs, connection certification and allocation of liability.
Lawyers for B2B travel marketplaces
15+ years advising travel distribution businesses. Legal and tax advice for platforms that connect travel suppliers and buyers via API: contracts, liability, competition, data and VAT.
Buyer contracts
Every buyer wants its own terms of access to your API
API access and use terms for OTAs, travel agencies and tour operators: credentials, limits, suspension and liability.
Liability for bookings
Rate errors, overbookings and failed bookings: everyone looks at the platform
We define your role (technology intermediary or party to the booking) and make it clear in your contracts and incident processes.
Competition law
Prices and terms of competing businesses flow through your platform
We review parity, exclusivity and information flows so the platform does not facilitate prohibited exchanges between competitors.
Data protection (GDPR)
Millions of travellers’ data pass through your API on their way to other countries
A clear GDPR chain: each party’s role, processing agreements, sub-processors and international transfers.
Technology and AI
Your product is your technology: code, mapped content and AI models
SaaS licences, intellectual property, use of data to train models and AI Act obligations.
VAT on digital services
You invoice commissions and subscriptions to clients in dozens of countries
VAT on cross-border B2B services (place of supply and reverse charge) and international invoicing.
International tax
Clients outside the EU withholding tax on your invoices
Double taxation treaties, withholding tax at source and permanent establishment risk.
Coordinated legal and tax advice for travel distribution platforms, including funding rounds and M&A
How we work with marketplaces
We speak the language of connectivity
We know B2B distribution from the inside: integrations, certifications, content mapping and commission models. That is why our contracts reflect how your platform really works.
One-off review
A contract with a new supplier, your API terms or a VAT question about a foreign client.
Fixed-scope project
Contract templates for buyers and sellers, a GDPR audit of the platform or preparing for a funding round or a sale.
In-house legal team
We work as your legal department: with product, sales and partners, all year round.
“What I value most about mylegalinbox and its team is how well they understand the complexity of the B2B technology distribution business Bundleport operates in. They combine professionalism and sound judgement with something essential for us: closeness, agility and practical solutions. Having them on our side gives us real peace of mind.”
Iván FontCEO & Co-founder, Bundleport
Common legal and tax questions for a travel marketplace
Is a B2B marketplace liable for bookings made through its API?
It depends on its contractual role and how it operates. If it acts only as a technology intermediary connecting buyer and supplier, its liability can be limited by contract. If it invoices, collects payment or sells in its own name, it may take on obligations towards the buyer. That is why it should be defined in the contracts with both sides and in the incident processes.
What competition risks does a travel distribution platform face?
Parity or exclusivity clauses and the exchange of sensitive information (prices, terms, volumes) between competitors using the platform can raise competition law issues. They are managed through contracts, controls on access to information and internal policies.
Is the marketplace a controller or a processor of travellers’ data?
It depends on what it decides about that data. If it only passes the data between buyer and supplier on their instructions, it usually acts as a processor. If it uses the data for its own purposes, such as analytics, product development or AI, it may be the controller for that processing. This must be reflected in the contracts and in international transfers.
How is a Spanish platform that invoices clients in other countries taxed for VAT?
As a general rule, B2B services supplied to businesses established in another country are deemed to be supplied where the client is located, so the invoice does not carry Spanish VAT and, within the EU, the reverse charge applies. There are exceptions depending on the type of service, and outside the EU there may be withholding tax at source.
Do you advise platforms based outside Spain?
Yes. We have clients in Europe, North America, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. We negotiate multi-jurisdictional contracts and coordinate with local lawyers where each country’s rules require it.
Could my booking website make me a package travel organiser without my knowing?
Yes. If travellers on your website combine services for the same trip, such as a flight and a hotel, in a single booking process or at an inclusive price, you may be the organiser of a package, with all the obligations that entails. The new Directive (EU) 2026/1024 also widens the scenarios, for example where the traveller’s details are passed to another trader and the second contract is concluded within 24 hours. The booking flow needs to be reviewed step by step.
If I charge the supplier a commission instead of a margin, am I a travel agency?
How you get paid is not decisive on its own. What matters is what you sell, in whose name you contract with the traveller and whether you combine services. Charging a commission fits with acting as an intermediary, but if you organise or sell packages, or your region reserves travel intermediation to travel agencies, you will still need to be one.
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