Brett Henry
“If you are another nondescript branded hotel they will not even remember your name”: The Hotels Network CEO
For this week's podcast, I spoke to Juanjo Rodriguez, the CEO of The Hotels Network, a company delivering a hotel tech ecosystem that increases direct channel conversions. The company grew from five to 50 in three and a half years, with a core tech team in Barcelona and a second…
How tennis and tenacity helped to build the MICE industry’s biggest global player
I caught up with Bharet Malhotra, senior vice president of sales at Cvent - and one of the company's founding members - for this week's podcast. We discussed building and selling the industry-leading platform for cloud-based event registration software, and his role in the hospitality business. The below is an…
Content + collaboration = success: Podcast with Chirag Gupta, CEO of Deyor Camps
I spoke to Chirag Gupta, CEO of Deyor Camps - India's largest experiential travel company - about staying true to your values for this week's podcast: The below is an abridged version of that conversation. Chirag speaks: What is Deyor Camps? If you look at the Indian travel market, you have companies like…
WNTM (what not to miss) at WTM – TD’s CEO and editorial director share their picks
London's World Travel Market (WTM) has an terrifying 139 presentation sessions spread over its three days, 5 - 7 November. That's not to mention all the other things you could be doing: pounding the trade floor closing deals, forging new partnerships or building new relationships. So how do you decide which ones…
Building the billion-dollar travel company “you’ve never heard about”
For this week's TD Podcast I met the CEO of WorldVentures Holdings and Rovia, Josh Paine, back stage at the Impact Arena in Bangkok. Paine had just finished speaking at an event for his company WorldVentures Holdings and one of its products DreamTrips: The following is an abridged version of…