Linking the Travel Industry | ITM Reveals Booking Tools Fall Short of Expectations

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 - 

• China Eastern becomes the first mainland Chinese airline to sign a deal with Amadeus for it's international expansion, specifically focusing on NDC via Amadeus.
• AI travel planning tech startup Stippl raise €575k in investment.
• American Airlines delay their planned "preferred agency" plans as well as changes in their loyalty program, from 1 May to 1 July.
• An ITM | Institute of Travel Management survey reveals corporate booking tools are still falling short of user needs and expectations.
• CWT adds Slack messaging support for their customers.
• The U.S. Department of Transportation announced new rules which will require airlines to provide automatic cash refunds to passengers around delays and cancellations, and protect consumers from costly hidden airline fees. 

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