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May 24, 2023

AI in the Hospitality Industry: The Future of Guest Experience: Luca …

Luca is the Co-founder and CEO of Jurny, an AI-driven hospitality platform that seamlessly automates operations and guest experiences through vertical integration and connectivity. This is a company that has taken the traditi...

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Dec. 14, 2022

Finding Your Story: Juliana Hahn, Hospitality Copywriter

Juliana is a content creator and copywriter specializing in writing for the hospitality and tourism industry. If you’ve ever been responsible for writing an email to a guest, promoting a new offering, or creating content for ...

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Nov. 30, 2022

How to get on the first page of an OTA: Bart-Jan Leyts, Loreca

Bart-Jan is the Founder of Loreca, a company specializing in online revenue strategies for the hospitality industry. They’ve developed an algorithm that enables hotels to have better control of their rates over multiple booki...

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Nov. 9, 2022

Starting your hospitality investment journey: Alex Jarbo, Sargon Inve…

Alex is a short-term rental developer and manager in Ashville, NC. A former Marine who found his way to real estate investing, he now runs Sargon Investments, a short term rental development company that is working on 650 cab...

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Oct. 19, 2022

Digitizing Hospitality: Dr. Josef Vollmayr, limehome

Josef is the Founder and Managing Director of limehome, a European hospitality company with over 3,000 managed units, and is built on digitizing the guest experience and day to day operations. The discussion about automation ...

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Oct. 12, 2022

How Human Resources is Evolving: Sue Sanders, HVMG

Sue is the EVP and Chief Human Resources Officer at HVMG, a hospitality management company based in Atlanta. You could make a strong argument that the common thread through which many of today’s challenges in hospitality are ...

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Oct. 5, 2022

Insights from SiteMinder’s 2022 Changing Traveller Report: Jason Lugo…

Jason is the Market Vice President for the Americas at SiteMinder, the world’s leading open hotel commerce platform. The company recently released its 2022 Changing Traveler Report. Featuring insights from 8000 traveler inter...

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Sept. 28, 2022

Improve your recruiting game: Thad Price, Talroo

Thad is the CEO of Talroo, a data-driven job advertising platform that helps hiring managers reach the candidates they need to build their essential workforce. It’s hard to get your head around the changes in the labor market...

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Sept. 21, 2022

Comfort, Control, And Convenience in Hotel Technology: Tanya Pratt, O…

Tanya is Vice President at Oracle Hospitality and leads the OPERA Cloud Strategy and Product Management teams. Prior to joining Oracle Hospitality, Tanya spent over 20 years at Fairmont Hotels and Resorts in Hotel Operations,...

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Sept. 14, 2022

Growing a Hospitality Brand: Will Parry, ALTIDO

Will is the CEO and Director of ALTIDO, a company that manages Airbnbs, serviced apartments, hotels, and private residences across Europe. This is a classic episode of intending to talk about one thing, and pivoting to discus...

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Sept. 12, 2022

Episode 100: THANK YOU!

Thank you for listening and supporting the show for 100 episodes! Here's to 100 more! Links LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-proven-principles-podcast/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theprovenprinciplespod...

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Aug. 31, 2022

The Next Steps for the Hotel Business: Mitch Patel, Vision Hospitalit…

Mitch is the President and CEO of Vision Hospitality Group. The company holds a growing portfolio of hotels affiliated with brands such as Hilton and Marriott, including the company's first boutique hotel, The Edwin in Chatta...

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Aug. 19, 2022

The 21st Century Hotel General Manager: Keith Cestare, Ambassador Chi…

Keith is the General Manager at the Ambassador Chicago. How has the job of a hotel GM changed over the past couple of years? This is a question that only something like the pandemic could cause us to ask because …

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July 13, 2022

The demographic effects on hospitality technology: Sebastien Leitner,…

Sebastien is the Vice President of Partnerships at Cloudbeds, an all-in-one hospitality management software platform. A question I’ve been wrestling with lately is “can you provide luxury level service if hotels are moving to...

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June 15, 2022

Whole Hotel Revenue Management: Shawn Tarter, RealTime Reservation

Shawn is the CEO of RealTime Reservation, an organization that provides real-time inventory management software to the hospitality industry. I can tell you from personal experience, the process for driving ancillary revenue i...

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June 8, 2022

What hotels and vacation rentals can learn from one another: Matthew …

Matthew and Brian are the hosts of the GuestX Podcast. Matthew is also the President and CEO of Xplorie, and Brian is the Founder & CEO at Allevo Homes. I initially titled this episode Hotels vs. Short Term Rentals, but …

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May 25, 2022

What it takes to build world-class teams: Matt Rolfe, Results Hospita…

Matt is the founder of Results Hospitality and Westshore Hospitality Group, and the author of You Can’t Do It Alone, a new book about achieving more through building better teams. There has been a lot of news about labor shor...

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May 18, 2022

What’s next for the hotel industry: Sheenal Patel, Arbor Lodging

Sheenal is the Co-founder of Arbor Lodging and Chief Executive Officer of Arbor Lodging Management. I find the stories of senior leaders in hospitality who don’t come up through the industry interesting, mostly because it’s f...

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May 11, 2022

The next wave of F&B technology: Ben Pryor, SpotOn

Ben is the Head of Innovation at SpotOn. He’s a long time restaurant industry vet, he has moved to the other side of the table to lead the development of SpotOn's restaurant and hospitality product innovation strategy with a ...

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May 4, 2022

Does the short term rental industry affect affordable housing?: Pam K…

Pam is the Senior Director of Compliance Services at Avalara, a transactional tax compliance company that operates across multiple industries, including lodging. I want to let you know up front, this isn’t an episode about ta...

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April 27, 2022

Can hotel operations be managed remotely?: Jason Lopez, Jurny

Jason is the Director of Sales at Junry, a hospitality tech company offering SaaS-based management solutions designed to accommodate the evolving needs and expectations of the modern traveler. What that means is they provide ...

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April 20, 2022

Transforming Hotel Loyalty: Kristi Gole, Global Hotel Alliance

Kristi is the Vice President and Head of Product at Global Hotel Alliance, the world's largest alliance of independent luxury hotel brands. If you’ve ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes to develop a hotel loyalty pro...

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April 13, 2022

How to Create Operational Integrity: Tommy Yionoulis, OpsAnalitica

Tommy is the Founder of OpsAnalitica, a company helping hospitality businesses become more efficient and profitable through process, accountability, and data. He also happens to be a former stand up comedian and a great story...

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April 6, 2022

Can the gig-economy help hotel housekeeping?: Assaf Karmon, TurnoverB…

Assaf is the Co-Founder and CEO of TurnoverBNB, a platform for short-term rental hosts and cleaners to connect and automatically manage their vacation rental cleaning schedules. Back before the pandemic, I had several convers...

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