"Profiting from tourism in illegal Israeli settlements", 17 February 2026

Three Spanish civil society groups have accused the multinational travel company, eDreams, of laundering profits derived from activity in illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and the Occupied Syrian Golan. The groups – NOVACT, SUDS, and Comité de Solidaridad Contra la Causa Árabe...at the Investigating Courts in Madrid...

The case filed by the Spanish groups argues that by promoting, facilitating and monetising settlement tourism, online travel platforms have profited from war crimes, while integrating those revenues into their accounts as if they were lawful commercial income. The legal basis for their complaint is Article 301 of the Spanish Criminal Code, which criminalises the integration into the financial system of profits derived from crimes, including war crimes.

eDreams ODIGEO S.A...operates well-known travel brands including eDreams, Opodo, GoVoyages, Travellink, and Liligo, serving millions of users worldwide with flight bookings, hotel reservations and holiday packages...

September 2024 – July 2025: SOMO and Centro Guernica G37 documented more than 43 accommodation listings on hotels.edreams.com, including properties in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem and the Occupied Syrian Golan. Several listings were fully bookable. We completed seven test bookings in Spain between October 2024 and July 2025, with payments processed and confirmation emails sent for each.

September – October 2025: On 3 September, eDreams publicly announced it had disengaged from the OPT, and its hotels.edreams.com site subsequently went offline. However, in follow-up research, SOMO and G37 identified another platform, accommodation.edreams.es, which appears to be an eDreams site...However, it is operated by a different company, Travelscape LLC, a subsidiary of Expedia. In September 2025, 35 listings in settlements remained active, and in October, four reservations were completed for future dates. The complaint argues that eDreams, while not owning this site itself, was paid commissions for bookings made via the site...

The case centres on the business model of the online travel industry. eDreams does not operate as an independent accommodation provider. According to its financial accounts, since September 2022, its hotel business has relied on hotel inventory from other platforms, such as Booking.com and Expedia. This includes properties located in illegal settlements.

In early September 2025, eDreams publicly announced that it had withdrawn and would continue to block accommodation listings in settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory...Around the same time, hotels.edreams.com went offline. This has highlighted the company’s reactive rather than proactive approach.

As noted above, however, subsequent monitoring by researchers found that the eDreams brand was still being used on a site that offered accommodation listings in illegal settlements. The site was operated by a different company, namely Travelscape, but eDreams was allegedly being paid commission. This kind of complex corporate arrangement can allow companies to make profits while distancing themselves from responsibility.

eDreams removed listings in September 2025...But removing listings does not repair harm or guarantee non-repetition...

In an email to SOMO on 14 January, eDreams stated that it takes “the allegations raised [by SOMO] very seriously”. The company also said that their “corporate position remains firm: it is not the intention of eDreams to generate business or revenue from accommodations located in the occupied Palestinian territories or the occupied Syrian Golan.” eDreams claimed the settlement listings found in late 2025 “may be linked to a specific external technical integration¨ and they see these as “isolated technical discrepancies”, and the company was carrying out an internal investigation to determine how those listings appeared in their inventory. On 16 January 2026, Booking.com wrote to SOMO that its partnership with eDreams had ended in September 2025 and that it “no longer has any kind of commercial or technical relationship with eDreams”. A criminal complaint concerning Booking.com’s activities in relation to settlement listings is currently pending in the Netherlands. In the past, in its responses to SOMO´s findings, Booking.com has maintained that, in its view, its activities do not violate applicable laws, including international law.