Episodes

  • First Hospitality's Jenna Fishel on the evolution of her company's commercial strategy team
    Sep 3 2025

    In a podcast interview, First Hospitality's Jenna Fishel talks about her company's transition to a commercial strategy model and how it's navigating the current demand environment.

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    18 mins
  • The rising need for resilience planning in hotels
    Aug 27 2025

    Host's Ritz-Carlton Naples property took nine months to renovate after Hurricane Ian, but when hurricanes Milton and Helene hit, the hotel was able to reopen in just nine days thanks to all its resilience renovations.

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    26 mins
  • Hotels are booming in India and Japan, but the markets are not the same (with STR's Jesper Palmqvist)
    Aug 25 2025

    STR's Jesper Palmqvist joins the podcast for our monthly check-in on the Asia Pacific region, diving into what makes that part of the world's two key growth markets - Japan and India - so different despite their similarly strong growth. Across the rest of the region, hoteliers are facing a difficult budget season.

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    26 mins
  • AI and the growing travel market with Booking.com's Olaf Belgraver
    Aug 20 2025

    Olaf Belgraver from Booking.com discussed recent consumer travel trends as the global industry continues to grow.

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    19 mins
  • How hotel revenue managers are making sense of a complicated environment (live at the Hotel Data Conference with Pyramid Global Hospitality's Lori Kiel)
    Aug 18 2025

    Pyramid Global Hospitality's Senior Vice President of Revenue Management Lori Kiel joined the podcast during the recent Hotel Data Conference in Nashville to talk about the various challenges facing revenue strategy, including long-term headwinds for international travel and how forecasting and budgeting are impacted by a volatile economy.

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    22 mins
  • Why revenue managers should feel proud (with Sage Hospitality's Priya Chandnani, live from HDC)
    Aug 13 2025

    Sage Hospitality Group's Priya Chandnani joins the podcast live at the Hotel Data Conference in Nashville to talk about how revenue managers are faring in an increasingly difficult environment and how there's still room for innovation.

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    26 mins
  • Takeaways from Day 2 of the 2025 Hotel Data Conference (with STR's Hannah Smith)
    Aug 8 2025

    Bryan Wroten and Trevor Simpson from CoStar News Hotels speak with STR's Hannah Smith about their impressions from the second day of the 2025 Hotel Data Conference.

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    12 mins
  • Recapping the first day of Hotel Data Conference 2025 (with STR's Kelsey Fenerty)
    Aug 8 2025

    The CoStar News Hotels team, along with STR's Kelsey Fenerty, talk about their top takeaways from the first day of the 2025 Hotel Data Conference in Nashville, including a revision to the full-year forecast for the U.S. hotel industry.

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    13 mins