HeyJaredWil Slickers
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Final Episode of GMH Hotels: A Big Week for Hotel AI and Resort M&A. (opens the original)
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Subscribe Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | RSS On this week’s Good Morning Hospitality, A Skift Podcast: Hotels Edition, Sarah Dandashy and Steve Turk dig into two stories with real implications for hotel operators heading into the fall. The conversation opens with what hotel CEOs are actually deploying with AI right now, from voice agents handling a growing share of front desk queries to digital twins being used for executive decision-making. Then, Sarah and Steve unpack Royal Caribbean Gro
Uber Is Coming for STR. Airbnb Has an AI Agent Coming. (opens the original)
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Subscribe Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | RSS On Monday’s Good Morning Hospitality, A Skift Podcast, Brandreth Canaley, Michael Goldin, and Jamie Lane recap sessions from Skift Global Forum that every STR operator should be paying attention to. First up is Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber, who confirmed that Uber plans to add vacation rental content through its Expedia Group integration and that 80% of its hotel bookings already come from UberOne members — demand that bypasses Google entirely
VayKLife Just Acquired Xplorie. The Guest Experience Layer Finally Gets Its Moment. (opens the original)
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On this bonus episode of Good Morning Hospitality, A Skift Podcast, Wil Slickers sits down with Dan Gaertner, CEO of VayKLife, to break the news that VayKLife has acquired Xplorie, bringing gear and amenities together with local activities and experiences under one platform for vacation rental managers. Dan walks through why the deal happened now, what the combined platform means for VRMs on day one, and why he believes pairing physical gear with curated experiences is one of the most powerful w
PE Money Is Coming for STR. The New StayTerra CEO Explains the Strategy. (opens the original)
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On Monday’s Good Morning Hospitality, A Skift Podcast, Brandreth Canaley, and Michael Goldin are joined by Amy Kothari, the new CEO of StayTerra, to talk PE-backed STR consolidation, what the rollup model looks like when it actually works, and what it all means for independent operators. From there, the crew gets into Airbnb abandoning its decade-long build-it-yourself experience strategy and partnering with Tripadvisor instead, and closes with Expedia Group cutting eight senior executives in a
Airbnb Has Car Rentals Now. What Does That Make It? (opens the original)
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On Monday’s Good Morning Hospitality, A Skift Podcast, Brandreth Canaley, Michael Goldin, and Jamie Lane get into three stories about where the STR industry is headed now that the World Cup is behind us.The conversation opens with Airbnb‘s partnership with CarTrawler for car rentals in five countries, the latest step in Airbnb’s quiet transformation into a traditional OTA. It already has homes, hotels, experiences, services, and airport pickups. The crew digs into what that means for hosts who b
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