Innovation in hospitality: Insights from a Forbes Travel Guide executive

In this week’s episode of Hotel Moment, you’ll find out if you’re sacrificing the guest experience for the sake of reducing costs or if you’re making smart technology decisions that increase staff productivity and make your guests happy. Stuart Greif, Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy, Innovation & Operating Officer at Forbes Travel Guide, joins Revinate CMO Karen Stephens to share how he’s seen AI technology make or break a hotel.

In this week’s episode of Hotel Moment, you’ll find out if you’re sacrificing the guest experience for the sake of reducing costs or if you’re making smart technology decisions that increase staff productivity and make your guests happy. Stuart Greif, Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy, Innovation & Operating Officer at Forbes Travel Guide, joins Revinate CMO Karen Stephens to share how he’s seen AI technology make or break a hotel. Get his practical examples on where you can integrate this technology into your tech stack while keeping the point of hospitality the main point.

Tune in to discover how to approach technology innovation in hospitality and learn which non-negotiable service standards remind your teams of the joy in the hotel experience.

Meet your host

As Chief Marketing Officer at Revinate, Karen Stephens is focused on driving long-term growth by building Revinate’s brand equity, product marketing, and customer acquisition strategies. Her deep connections with hospitality industry leaders play a key role in crafting strategic partnerships.

Karen is also the host of The Hotel Moment Podcast, where she interviews top players in the hospitality industry. Karen has been with Revinate for over 11 years, leading Revinate’s global GTM teams. Her most recent transition was from Chief Revenue Officer, where she led the team in their highest booking quarter to date in Q4 2023.

Karen has more than 25 years of expertise in global hospitality technology and online distribution — including managing global accounts in travel and hospitality organizations such as Travelocity and lastminute.com

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Karen Stephens has been a leader in hospitality tech and distribution for over 20 years. She joined Revinate in 2013 as Senior Director of Sales and progressed through various roles in both sales, customer success, and Chief Revenue Officer.

Revinate is a direct booking platform that leads the hospitality industry in driving direct revenue and increased profitability. 

Forbes Travel Guide, formerly Mobil Travel Guide, is the originator of the prestigious Five Star Rating system, and has provided the travel industry's most comprehensive ratings and reviews of hotels, restaurants and spas since 1958. Forbes Travel Guide has a team of expert inspectors who anonymously evaluate properties against up to 800 rigorous and objective standards, providing consumers the insight to make better- informed travel and...