State Administration for Market Regulation
The State Administration for Market Regulation appears in 困在系统里的酒店，你不知道的携程垄断练成史 as the reported regulator investigating Ctrip / Trip.com Group for antitrust issues. The source does not give a final legal conclusion; it uses the investigation as the entry point for platform history and governance.
In the episode, the regulator’s future challenge is not framed as simply punishing large platforms. The hosts argue that agencies need data visibility over order flows, price changes, commissions, fulfillment, and platform rules to evaluate Platform Antitrust and Platform Data Regulation questions in practice.
EP91 订房订票定江山，携程51亿为傲慢买单 adds the later penalty account. According to the episode, SAMR’s action against Ctrip totaled 51.79亿元 and focused on abuse of market dominance through merchant-side exclusivity and lowest-price constraints rather than every consumer-side pricing complaint.
Connections
- Ctrip / Trip.com Group — reported antitrust investigation target in the source.
- Yunnan Homestay Association — complainant-side context cited by the episode.
- Ctrip Antitrust Penalty, Platform Antitrust, Platform Data Regulation, OTA Platform Concentration, Travel Platform Merchant Exclusivity, and Travel Price Parity Enforcement — main governance concepts.