For this week's podcast, I spoke to Juanjo Rodriguez, the CEO of The Hotels Network, a company delivering a hotel tech ecosystem that increases conversions.The company grew from five to 50 in three and a half years, with a core tech team in Barcelona and a second office in San Francisco, plus people on the ground in Bangkok, Singapore, Mumbai, Mexico, Montevideo, Bogota. He and I discussed building a company, from just an idea:
If you look at the Indian travel market, you have companies like Make My Trip, which is an online travel agency for budget hotels and OYO that is doing in a fantastic job in India and now China, but within the travel space - which is now so streamlined by these bigger companies - there is a fragmented niche within the industry: experiential and adventure travel.
I caught up with Bharet Malhotra, senior vice president of sales at Cvent - and one of the company's founding members - for this week's podcast. We discussed building and selling an industry-leading platform for cloud-based event registration software and his role in the hospitality cloud business at Cvent.
We take for granted radio the ability to purchase flights online and the user experience that comes with it, and we've been doing this for 20 years from desktop now to mobile. But there are many new channels coming up and also lot of pressure and changes are coming from the supply side that really will force a paradigm shift when it comes to flight retailing.
Douglas Quinby, the co-founder and CEO of the Arival event, joins us this week to talk about the rise of the tours and activities space as well as his plan to grow the Arrival Event as a platform to support suppliers around the world.
WTM 2018 features 136 conference sessions over three days. Simon Willmore, TD's editorial director, and Brett Henry sift through the agenda and give you their top ten picks for must attend sessions.Special bonus tips for the the must attend events each evening.
Josh Paine shares his journey to becoming CEO of World Ventures and his mission to build the world's best travel club and experiences platform.
We talk with Matt Baer on blockchain and Keyocoin's work to leverage this technology to deliver a universal travel rewards program.
Brand USA has taken destination marketing and demand generation to new levels. In this episode we talk to Tom Garzilli, CMO of Brand USA, about the UK launch of a giant screen feature film they have produced entitled America's Musical Journey
HR's increasing strategic role as organisations are transformed by technologies like AI, Big Data and Robotics.
We discuss IATA's New Distribution Capability seven years after its announcement; its current state and progress, and its potential for airlines, travel suppliers, and travellers.
Adrian Tan, the cofounder of The Resource Group, will be talking at the upcoming TD HR Summit about HR technology, and how it will disrupt the industry in the years to come.
Westwin published a fantastic data set on Chinese consumer cross-border purchasing behavior including 15 pages of travel specific data. We speak to Larry You of Westin to step through this report providing insight into an important growth areas for the global travel industry.
In this episode we speak to Anita Chan, CEO of Compass Edge, for a preview of her session entitled: “Capturing luxury Chinese travellers: The channels, tactics and partners”
Dan Lynn is the co-founder ZUZU Hospitality Solutions, a distribution and revenue management company for small independent hotels. Two years ago he started ZUZU – because he felt that “hoteliers were getting increasingly overwhelmed with the complexity of working with online travel platforms”. In preparation for his talk at TD’s GM Executive Summit, we caught up to chat for this week’s TD Podcast.
I spoke to the founder of Portier, Mark Pope, about how engagement equals sales for five-star luxury hotels in the latest episode of the TD podcast, in preparation for his speech at our GM Executive Summit.
Brett Henry, Travel Daily's CEO, spoke to Andrew McGregor, CEO of Guestline about life in Asia, the early days of e-commerce, and how to expand into new markets.
In the first of a weekly series of podcasts by TD’s CEO Brett Henry and a special guest, we talk about the startling statistic that, by 2030, it is forecast that two-thirds of the global middle class will be living in Asia. In contrast, North America and Europe will only account for a fifth of the world’s middle class population.In the next 10 years, the number of middle income earners will balloon five times up to 3.2 billion and will be the biggest group of consumers that companies should take notice.Some of the important factors of the rising of the middle class, according to Graham Brown, are, increasing wages, experiential travel, local inbound markets – an industry run by Asians for Asians.