FNA 204: Will This Joke Lan?
This week the amazing Lan Elliott returns to FNA to laugh along Glenn, Craig and Doctor Producer Suzanne. This week Glenn is in Dallas and the gang reveals which pet peeves are moving on to the sweet 16!
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FNA 203: No Carreirao’s in The World
Big show tonight as we kick off the weekend happy hour celebration. We’re joined by our friend Paula Carreirao live from Brazil and Glenn, Craig and Doctor Producer Suzanne torture her with an update on the Round of 32 for our Hotel Pet Peeves Face off.
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Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Appoints Amit Sripathi Chief Financial Officer
David Wilner Assumes Chief Development Officer Role Company Reaffirms Full-Year 2026 Outlook PARSIPPANY, N.J. (March 3, 2026) – Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: WH) today announced that following a comprehensive search process, Amit Sripathi has been appointed Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Sripathi, who most recently served as the Company’s Chief Development Officer – North America, succeeds…
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1018: Hoteliers: Don’t Get Buried in AI Search — Do This First
Everybody keeps saying “AI” like it’s one thing. It isn’t. Dr. Producer Suzanne Bagnera, PhD, CHA, CED co-hosts with me for this one, and we bring in Ira Vouk, MBA Vouk, someone we constantly see on the conference circuit. Ira teaches, writes, and helps companies make sense of what’s coming, so we asked her for…
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202: We Made a Hotel Pet Peeves Bracket… and It Got Personal
Atention!!!! We’re finally time doing March Madness properly on Friday NIght Audit… which means we turned it into a hotel pet peeve tournament. We built a 32-seed bracket and we’re letting YOU, the audience decide what advances. VOTE HERE!!! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/R26KPKV This episode features: 🎙️ Patty Jefferson (Visual Matrix) 🎙️ Dorraine Lallani at Westmont Hospitality 🎙️…
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Wyndham Levels Up Group Travel with New End-to-End Booking and Management Tools
Enhancements to the Company’s group booking platform bring real-time visibility, simplified coordination and centralized management to planners and hotels alike—at no additional cost PARSIPPANY, N.J., Feb. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is elevating the group travel experience with new enhancements to its direct booking platform (groups.wyndhamhotels.com), introducing real-time visibility, customizable booking tools…
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1017: Hotel Pipeline Update – Conversions vs New Construction Across the Americas
Conversions still beat new construction in many markets, so I wanted a real pipeline read across the Americas. I talked with Bruce Ford (SVP, Lodging Econometrics) about what the pipeline looks like across Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the U.S. — and what has to change before more projects break ground. Here’s what we…
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A $300,000 Liquor Order: Building a Premium Hotel Bar
A speakeasy vault door. A martini with popcorn. A coffee cocktail that takes 24 hours to prep. I talk with Michael “Mac” MacDonnell (Vice President of F&B & Entertainment, LionGrove) inside the Vault at Wyndham Grand Rio Mar. We get into the cocktail ideas, the pricing decisions, and the operational details behind the show. The…
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What CoralTree Wants Leaders to Take Back to Their Hotels
Glenn Haussman talks with Andre Fournier, Chief Commercial Officer of CoralTree Hospitality, at the company’s Leadership Forum at Black Desert Resort about what this event is meant to drive once leaders return to their hotels. Andre explains why CoralTree brings its leaders together, how the company onboarded more than 100 new leaders this year, and…
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1013: How Wyndham Grand Rio Mar Rebuilt a 30-Year-Old Resort
Reinventing a 30-year-old resort takes more than a renovation. It takes rethinking how guests want to spend their time. Glenn Haussman is in Puerto Rico at the Wyndham Grand Rio Mar with Andro Nodarse-Leon, CEO of property owner Lion Grove, to talk about a more than $70 million reimagining of this iconic resort around experience,…
