Friday Night Audit #9: Sarah Dandashy, Calvin Tilokee and Too Much Wine!
No Vacancy with Glenn Haussman
Glenn and Craig get to drink wine with Sarah Dandashy, Askaconcierge.tv! This show goes totally off the rails and we barely got to any planned content. But our misfortune is your gain as Producer Dave surprises us with an appearance by the Calvin Tilokee, the man behind @revparblems and host of @midlifecrisispodcast.
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431: The Hotel Numbers Game with Jan Frietag of CoStarv
No Vacancy with Glenn Haussman
Jan Freitag, National Director of Hospitality with CoStar, shares good news about the state of hospitality from a rooms revenue perspective. He's joined by Chris Green, CEO of Chesapeake Hospitality who shares what he is seeing across his property portfolio. Hint: Fall room sales are off the charts!!!
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430: Hotel Design Expert Mike Suomi
No Vacancy with Glenn Haussman
Design expert Mike Suomi is back to talk about how COVID continues to influence the future designs of hotels. Plus, we take a look at some great projects. Watch the video version at: https://youtu.be/4g-1PWj1iK4
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429: Live from The Pierre, the Center of NYC Luxury!
No Vacancy with Glenn Haussman
We are live from The Pierre, one of the most luxurious hotels in the world. We sit with GM Francois-Olivier Luiggi to continue our conversation about elite guest experience and his involvement with the James Beard Foundation.
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428: Live From Times Square
No Vacancy with Glenn Haussman
Wow! We did a live show from the center of the world, Time Square!!! Featuring Tom Harris, President of the Times Sq Alliance. We celebrate all that is amazing about NY. Plus, special appearance by The Naked Cowboy. Now that's what we call a show!
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Friday Night Audit #8: The Swag Show
No Vacancy with Glenn Haussman
Laurie Gardner is a regional and sales development director with IHG. We make a spin on the classic screwdriver cocktail with fresh squeezed orange and soda water, then discuss amazing and horrible conference swag, share stories from the road and Glenn complains about how is it possible an Avenger cannot qualify for a mortgage.
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427: State of the Hotel Investment Outlook
No Vacancy with Glenn Haussman
Michael Shindler of Four Corners Advisors, Inc. rejoins to talk about hotel investments. We address, bid vs ask, where's the money on the sidelines we keep hearing about, and are development deals about to pop because of more positive industry outlook.
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426: How Three Incredible GMs Are Making it Happen at Marriott
No Vacancy with Glenn Haussman
Today we've got trio of powerful high level award winning GMs from some of Marriott International's most well known North American hotels. Marion Harper Treskin is Complex GM, JW Marriott Parq Vancouver; Christine Devers is Complex GM for the Renaissance New York Times Square, W Times Square and W Union Square and Jacqueline Volkart, MBA is Dual GM, The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach and The Ritz-Carlton Bal Harbour, Miami. This show is about resiliency and building toward future successes!
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425: Cintas is Reinventing What it Means to Be Clean
No Vacancy with Glenn Haussman
Cintas is launching a new program called Total Clean, and they chose to do their soft launch on our program! Learn how they're reinventing what it means to be clean at the hotel level and learn about how they're uniform rental program saves hoteliers $$$ while also ensuring staff has a hygienically clean outfit every day they work. Thanks to Nicole Beall and David Mesko for the great conversation.
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424: Robert Cole, CEO of HVMG
No Vacancy with Glenn Haussman
Robert Cole is CEO of HVMG - Hospitality Ventures Management Group, a leading hotel management company with dozens of hotels in many parts of the country. We discuss their positive outlook on future travel, the dilemma of wanting to get people back to work but are unable to find them -- hint, they need 500 people right now -- and we discuss why housekeepers never seem to get out of the housekeeping department. Plus, some clever ways to reduce hotel expenses.
info_outlineIn today’s bonus episode, we speak with Sky Tucker of Bartech Systems International. Glenn gets schooled in minibars and the guys go through all the classic arguments why investing in minibars is a horrible thing to do. Truths revealed about how this amenity influences guest satisfaction, while creating a new profit center. Sky also shares combat duplicitous guests looking to steal minibar booze.
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