Linking the Travel Industry | Serko acquires GetThere from Sabre

Send us a text 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 -Germany has officially abolished the requirement for domestic hotel guests to fill in a registration form after lobbying from VDR - The German Business Travel Association.Maria Weber reports about the increases the French government is proposing on air departure taxes, in some cases by as much as +433%.Serko Ltd. is acquiring GetThere from Sabre Corporation.SAP Concur now offers Ryanair content via the latest Concur Travel platform.Chauffeur service provider Blacklane secures €60m in investments from TASARU Mobility Investments, which is owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.British Airways will be terminating some TMC"s selected private channel agreements by the end of the year, resulting in some corporate buyers then being subject to their Distribution Technology Charge.Till Streichert, CFO at Lufthansa Group releases their quarterly results and talks more about the turnaround project for Lufthansa.Traveltek Ltd. is acquired by Juniper Group.Good Travel Management (GTM) and CT Travel Group Ltd (CTTG) have joined forces to establish a new £85m turnover travel group. Extra Stories You can subscribe to this podcast by searching "BusinessTravel360" on Apple Podcast, Spotify, iHeart, Pandora, Alexa or your favorite podcast player. This podcast was created, edited and distributed by BusinessTravel360.  Be sure to sign up for regular updates at BusinessTravel360.com - Enjoy! Support the show