Business Travel 360 Linking the Travel Industry | Hilton Reveals New Status & Revamps Hilton Honors
Nov 28, 2025
14:28
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 podcast episode include:
- UK airline Blue Islands collapses, leaving thousands of passengers stranded.
- Hilton revamps their Honors loyalty scheme - Rob Burgess talks us through the changes.
- Rob also brings us news about Marriott Hotels launching two new payment cards in the UK, linked to their Bonvoy reward scheme:
- Google's new AI travel search function drives down the share prices in major OTAs.
- Russian hackers clone more than 4,300 travel sites in attempts to steal payment and other customer data.
- In Australia, Helloworld Travel Limited makes an aggressive bid for Webjet.com.au.
- The German government will reduce air taxes in 2026.
- Airlines are clamping down on the use of power banks on flights.
- Space News!
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