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:

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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. 

Content + collaboration = success, with Deyor Camps CEO Chirag Gupta

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. 

How tennis and tenacity helped to build the MICE industry's biggest player

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. 

"Search and compare is in Homo sapiens' DNA": Sebastien Gibergues, Amadeus

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.

Creating Arival, the event for the fastest-growing segment in travel - with Douglas Quinby

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.

WTM 2018 Session Hot List

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.

Building a billion-dollar travel company

We talk with Matt Baer on blockchain and Keyocoin's work to leverage this technology to deliver a universal travel rewards program.

Keyocoin: Universal travel rewards on the blockchain with CEO Matt Baer

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

Brand USA - Story telling and content at scale with Tom Garzilli

HR's increasing strategic role as organisations are transformed by technologies like AI, Big Data and Robotics. 

Workforce of the Future – Unlocking human potential with Jitender Panihar

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.

NDC X-Men: NDC's status and potential with Gianni Pisanello, VP at Amadeus

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.

The death of the yearly appraisal - HR tech with Adrian Tan

How to create picture perfect company culture to attract and retain millennials

HR for millennials with Sam Neo, People Mentality Inc

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.

Purchasing behaviour of Chinese travellers with Larry You, Westwin

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”

Capturing luxury Chinese travellers with Anita Chan, Compass Edge

We talk about macro level trends, companies, technologies and people driving growth in travel

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