• Transitioning from short-term rentals to hotel ownership
    Jan 29 2025

    Bruce and Kameko Burdine joined the Next Gen in Lodging podcast to discuss how they got into hotel ownership after starting with short-term rentals.

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    21 mins
  • Marketing to younger generations in the hospitality industry
    Dec 19 2024

    Wanderland's Alicia Zur-Szpiro and Saar Shai joined the Next Gen in Lodging podcast to talk about the inspiration behind their hospitality consultancy and how to market to the younger generations.

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    31 mins
  • Building a network in the hospitality industry (with Kingsbury Financial's Tommy Beyer)
    Dec 3 2024

    Kingsbury Financial's Tommy Beyer joined the Next Gen in Lodging podcast to discuss how networking through professional organizations helped him early on in his career in the hospitality industry.

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    25 mins
  • How Choice's SOAR program aims to diversify hotel ownership
    Oct 24 2024

    Choice Hotels International's Ken Townsend, Jacquelyn Peterson and Marcus Thomas join host Omari Head to discuss how their company's SOAR program has sought to expand the pool of hotel owners to underrepresented groups like those who are black, Hispanic, native Americans, women or veterans.

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    28 mins
  • Hoteliers Discuss Solutions for Overtourism
    Oct 4 2024

    On this episode of the Next Gen in Lodging podcast, host Chris Henry speaks with Mauna Kea Beach Hotel's Kansas Henderson and Club Med's Sebastien Favre about how hotels can play a role in the prevention of overtourism.

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    56 mins
  • Next Gen in Lodging: History-Making Black Female Hotel Investors Get Candid About The Journey To General Partnership
    Aug 22 2024

    In this episode of Next Gen in Lodging, host Davonne Reeves celebrates Black Business Month in a candid conversation with Dr. Amina James and Acquania Escarne, two of the partners in AJA Investments, about the lessons they learned and barriers they broke growing from passive hotel investors to general partners.

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    40 mins
  • Next Gen in Lodging: Predicting the Future for Black Hotel Owners
    Aug 1 2024

    On this episode of the Next Gen in Lodging podcast, hosts Davonne Reaves and Omari Head recapped their experiences and takeaways from the recent National Association of Black Hotel Owners, Operators & Developers conference in Miami.

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    17 mins
  • Next Gen in Lodging: Tactics For Hotel Marketing
    May 28 2024

    Host Davonne Reaves sits down with Kylie Chen from Twenty Four Seven Hotels, Jason Pirock from Springboard Hospitality and Christos Perakis from Zoottle to uncover the tactics and innovations driving success in hotel marketing, from leveraging digital platforms to harnessing the power of artificial intelligence.

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    52 mins