Where experience and revenue collide
A podcast episode covering countryside resort strategy, including event management, AI-driven guest messaging, upselling best practices, and spa revenue capture for UK country house hotels.
A podcast episode covering countryside resort strategy, including event management, AI-driven guest messaging, upselling best practices, and spa revenue capture for UK country house hotels.
A roundtable podcast covering staff wellbeing, career development, and regional collaboration in Kent hospitality, featuring voices from Champneys Eastwell Manor, HOSPA, and Hospitality Action.
Kings Court Hotel owner Harpreet Singh shares how he revived a struggling UK property by prioritising operational basics, a full team overhaul, and repositioning the hotel pub as a local destination.
Recorded at the Hoteliers' Voice Stratford-Upon-Avon roundtable, the episode features Celtic Collection, Kings Court Hotel, Oracle, and HOSPA on cloud migration, tech investment priorities, and future-ready hotel operations.
Sunborn London GM Francisco Ventura cut check-in time from 8 to 1 minute by shifting registration and payments to pre-arrival, freeing staff to focus on genuine guest interactions.
A podcast episode exploring how Kenilworth Hotel used Eccobell's Belle platform, deployed via in-room QR codes in August 2025, to shift front desk workload from admin tasks to genuine hospitality.
Wilhelm Luxem, Head of Quality Commission at Swiss Deluxe Hotels, shares how luxury properties can adopt technology while preserving authentic human connection, drawing on a 50-year career.
Andrew Evans of Keystep Solutions leads a roundtable discussion in Stratford-Upon-Avon where hoteliers share protocols for keeping guests safe following a high-profile Travelodge incident.
Revinate's Dylan Cole and De L'Europe Amsterdam's Robert-Jan Woltering argue that luxury hotels risk brand erosion through cost-cutting, and should prioritize top-line revenue growth across all profit centers.
Matt Bell of Mollie's outlines how the UK motel brand blends design, technology, and service culture to prove quality and affordability can coexist at scale.
Scottish hotel GMs discuss AI adoption, digital transformation priorities, and balancing technology with human service delivery.
Cornwall's Headland Hotel showcases how rotational training and family values built 450+ years of combined staff service, transforming hospitality from fallback to profession.
Q Hotels achieved nearly 40% uplift in incremental revenue by training front office staff to upsell systematically at check-in.
Paradores integrates heritage authenticity with data-driven guest experience management, achieving an NPS near 65 while investing €300 million in modernization.
HOSPA panel discusses how aparthotels, lifestyle hotels, and challenger brands navigate rising compliance costs while maintaining profitability and guest focus.
This Roundtable Roadshow podcast features The Headland Hotel's approach to staff development, with one employee who started at 14 and stayed throughout their career.
Bradley Spillman discusses how Whittlebury Park uses data and digital tools to market three distinct business lines while expanding into new segments like families.
Markos Chaidemenos explains how Canaves Collection balances family leadership, environmental restraint, and operational discipline to create distinctive luxury experiences on Santorini.
Aradhana Khowala challenges the industry to move beyond sustainability to regenerative tourism that adds more value to destinations than it takes.
UMusic Hospitality president Jordi Solé explains how Universal Music Group's hotel brand uses curated music experiences to create emotional connections and differentiation.