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  • Mysteries of Air Traffic Control with Greg Aretakis
    2025/03/18

    Flying through a perfect storm of staff shortages, archaic technology, DOGE crosshairs, and mounting safety concerns, America's air traffic control system stands at a critical crossroads. So, how can we fix all this? Master of the Air Greg Aretakis returns to guide us to the runway, providing a 101 course on how air traffic control works.

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    34 分
  • 8 Solutions for Overtourism
    2025/03/04

    Overtourism is one of those sprawling topics that everybody in the travel business has opinions on. Solutions are a bit more complicated, but let's dig in with tourism taxes, diversionary tactics, bans on cruise ships, the rise of "de-marketing," tax credits for better business practices, caps on hotel construction, and other tools that make our lives and our travel plans a bit less frantic.

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    23 分
  • Travel Journalist Carley Thornell
    2025/02/19

    On a stunningly regular basis, Pulitzer Prize winner Carley Thornell delivers insightful stories about sustainability, design, adventure, health, and travel. We talk space tourism, secret hotels, how people think about luxury, what Trump 2.0 means for tourism, the tax on families when they travel, and lots, lots more.

    https://muckrack.com/carley-d-thornell/articles

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    27 分
  • View From The Wing's Gary Leff
    2025/02/05

    When people say that someone needs no introduction, we think they're talking about View From The Wing's Gary Leff. He is one of the world's foremost experts in miles, points, and frequent business travel.

    Gary talks with us about the math behind airline loyalty programs, how he comes across the strangest stories in travel, the differences between airlines and hotels when they start co-branding with partners, how airlines define their "best customers" and way, way more.

    https://viewfromthewing.com/

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    34 分
  • Zach Demuth from JLL's Hotels and Hospitality Group
    2025/01/21

    The hardest working man in hotel research talks with us about the state of hotel brand acquisitions, optimism among investors about urban markets and luxury assets, and how hotels can learn from Taylor Swift (can't we all?).

    Plus: What's the most overrated statistic in hotel research? What's one piece of unvarnished advice he'd give to a new investment group? Why are partnerships on the rise in Vegas and Orlando?

    https://www.us.jll.com/en/people/zachariah-demuth
    https://www.hotelmanagement.net/transactions/review-2024-year-us-hospitality-deals

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    34 分
  • Fake Listener Mailbag - 2024 Edition
    2024/12/23

    Rejoice America, Jeff and Matt answer critical questions from fake listeners. If we could change one thing about the travel industry, what would it be? What are some of the best travel and travel business articles we've read this year? What's the next hot destination? What's the biggest trend coming for the industry in 2025? Whatever happened to Yakov Smirnoff?

    Articles we mention:
    The Branson Pilgrim

    Airbnb's idea to hold gladiator battles in Rome's Colosseum isn't going down well with some local lawmakers

    CBRE analysis of loyalty programs

    Colorado’s I-70 Has America’s Most Notorious Ski Traffic. Is There a Solution?

    LARC Quarterly Webinar

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    26 分
  • The State of Hotel Loyalty Programs
    2024/12/13

    CBRE's Rachel Rothman and Christine Bang understand hotel brand performance and equity analysis like very few others in this business. We talk about the overall health grade they'd give to hotel loyalty programs, what we mean when we talk about luxury, hospitality partnerships aiming to reach new audiences, how loyalty programs can grow, and way, way more.

    https://www.cbre.com/insights/reports/hotel-brand-performance-2024
    https://www.cbre.com/insights/articles/hotel-loyalty-programs-betting-on-the-law-of-large-numbers
    https://www.cbre.com/insights/viewpoints/maturation-of-the-hotel-industry-drives-convergence-with-other-sectors-to-facilitate-growth

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    28 分
  • Warm Cookies and Changing Skies: The Evolution and Future of Air Travel with Greg Aretakis
    2024/11/25

    If Greg Aretakis had a coaching tree, it would literally include every CEO and high-ranking executive in the airline industry. We talk with the Midwest Express Airlines president about the much-needed role of mid-sized airlines, how antitrust investigations get started, the future of private air travel and small airfields, whether completely electric planes will ever fly, and so so so much more!

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    33 分