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Linking the Travel Industry is a business travel podcast where we review the top travel industry stories that are posted on LinkedIn by LinkedIn members. We curate the top posts and discuss with them with travel industry veterans in a live session with audience members. You can join the live recording session by visiting BusinessTravel360.com
Your Hosts are Riaan van Schoor, Ann Cederhall and Aash Shravah.
Stories covered on this session include -

• The latest Advito travel price index suggests that intercontinental airfares will decline and hotel rates will stabilize in the third quarter, while domestic and regional airfares in the U.S. and Europe are on the rise.
• Etihad Airways launches a chatbot to assist clients with ticket, visa and other information.
• Lufthansa Group's news about a new environmental surcharge caused a great deal of discussion and debate.
• VDR - The German Business Travel Association releases a study which says that German travel managers reported a "significant" cost increase in business travel spending.
• Whilst we're still waiting to hear about their next African investment, Qatar Airways revealed it's also hoping to invest in the Australian market by taking a proposed 20% stake in Virgin Australia.
• Duetto, a hotel revenue management solution, has been acquired by GrowthCurve Capital.
• KAYAK launches a travel product for SMEs, with a flat $20 per booking rate.
• Skift releases a "fact from fiction" travel industry carbon offset report.
• Extra Stories

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