Category: Top Episodes

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Chip Conley, Industry Icon and Entrepreneur Extraordinaire

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Bestselling author, hospitality entrepreneur, disruptive business rebel, and social change agent, Chip Conley is a leader at the forefront of the sharing economy. At age 26, he founded Joie de Vivre Hospitality by transforming an inner-city motel and parlayed that into the second largest boutique hotel brand in the world.

TV Hotelier Anthony Melchiorri Goes “Extreme”

Podcast Interview with Hotel Impossible Host Anthony Melchiorri

Hotel Impossible host Anthony Melchiorri is back with all new episodes of Hotel Impossible starting October 2. And he’s got a new show too. “Extreme Hotels” is an all new series, launching that very same night at 9pm on the Travel Channel. Glenn and Anthony discuss getting freaked out at a haunted hotel, going to extreme places for extreme experiences, and how this all applies to the mainstream hotel business.

Modern Marketing Methodology Featuring Best Western’s SVP/CMO

Glenn Haussman sits down with Dorothy Dowling to Discuss Modern Marketing

Marketing to customers in 2017 is tough. The rules have changed, but so has Dorothy Dowling’s strategies. In this episode, we explore how Best Western Hotels & Resorts’ SVP and Chief Marketing Officer creates marketing plans the better connect with potential guests.

Legendary Hotelier Raymond Schultz on Birthing Hampton Inn

Ray Schultz, shares major hotel history way back to his involvement with Kemmons Wilson, creator of the Holiday Inn brand. Hear how Schultz started with Holiday Inns, Inc., in 1970, and how he founded the Hampton Inn brand in 1983. We hear those stories, through his days as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Promus Hotel Group.