A Room with a View Podcast

Welcome to A Room With A View Live from No Vacancy 2025— broadcasting straight from ICC Sydney! Today’s episode features a special guest: Gianni Domenicone, talented Hotel Manager at Quest Sydney Olympic Park. This session explores Gianni’s story—his career from Western Sydney student to leading a team amid today’s industry challenges, including guest expectations, operational innovation, and the...

Welcome to A Room With A View LIVE, the podcast where we dive into the people, places, and perspectives shaping today’s hotel world. In this episode, we’re joined by James Blanchett — a hotelier, owner of Quest Hotels, and, in another life, a rockstar lead guitarist. James takes us on the journey from working as a Night Porter at Quay West, sharing how he made the leap from managing hotels to owni...

Welcome to A Room With A View, coming to you live from No Vacancy 2025. Today we’re joined by the incredible Melinda Lampier for a conversation that dives deep into reputation, leadership, hotel career journeys, and the relationships that shape them all. To our listeners, thank you for being part of this community — your support means everything. If you enjoy these conversations, please remember t...

Welcome to A Room With a View, the podcast where we dive into the stories, strategies, and people shaping hotels, business, sport, and culture across Australia. Today is a very special occasion for us – Episode 50. Hitting this milestone has only been possible because of you, our listeners, who’ve tuned in, shared your feedback, and helped us grow this community of big-picture thinkers and curious...

In this Room 49 - Grant and Scott go back to where it all began for a wide ranging chat about many things, Val Kilmer, The Doors, Hotel Markets, Revenue Management Psychology and more. We are sorry for the length of time between drinks and will ensure you don't have to wait as long for the next episode. Thank you so much for listening to a A Room With A View.

In Room 48, we are joined by Steve Cox, former CEO of Destination NSW. Steve is a wonderful person with a great story to tell. Steve talks about the power of connection and shares some wonderful stories or his move from retail into tourism. This is a link to the Harvard study Steve mentioned. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/over-nearly-80-years-harvard-study-has-been-showing-how-to-...

Room 47 and Erin Pickering from Holy Stone drops by the Room Without A View studio. Erin has a background in service delivery and has started a company to change the service world in Australia. Holystone is there to offer practical advice to companies so they can improve the service offered to their customers. Erin has some good practical advice on good service and how to get there. We hope you en...

In Room 46, Grant shares a deeply personal story of his time in Fiji. Grant left Sydney for the adventure of a lifetime, where he discovered the importance of living and belonging. An excellent story for budding hoteliers as they consider opportunities and which ones to take. It also proves the theory that hotels change lives.

In this Room 45 of A Room With A View, Hotel Sales Legend Nicholas Kent drops buy with some really good advice and a story to tell. There are a number of icons mentioned in this podcast and Nick tells a great story. Thank you for listening to us, and please don't forget to like and subscribe to our show.

In this special 44th episode of A Room With A View, Sarah Rhodes drops by the Room With A View studio to chat about all things life purpose and her quest to make the world a better place. Sarah is honest about the size of the challenge and the simplicity of the approach required to make a real difference. We hope you enjoy our next instalment of A Room With A View. Thank you for listening, liking,...

Donna and Kate from Tidda Interiors dropped by A Room With A View and No Vacancy to talk about the role of interior design in telling a story of place. Stay tuned. Tidda Interiors is a proudly Australian start-up going places. https://tiddainteriors.com/

To bring us home, our neighbours Ramsey De Silva and Declan Mimnagh join us for our last Room of No Vacancy. What a fitting way to end the show with two passionate professionals. Thank You for having us and see you all next year. https://hrsinternational.com/ https://www.roomstay.io/

Room 41 Live From No Vacancy with Mardi Sparrow and Nicole Downs discussing the power of culture and talent retention. A must listen to episode live from No Vacancy www.ovolohotels.com/ www.trilogyhotels.com.au

Emily Stephens helps hotel owners with The Accommodation Project and joined us live from No Vacancy. https://www.theaccommodationproject.com.au/

Huon Hoogesteger drops by the Room With A View studio for a fascinating chat about all things solar and energy. Huon lives off the grid and practices what he preaches. Enjoy https://www.smartcommercialsolar.com.au/about-us

Room 38 to kick off day two with Brendan Granger and AI Andy to talk all things hotel tech and AI. https://www.myma.ai/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendongranger/

This is a very special chat with a wonderful human. Andrea Comastri talks all things Hotel Etico and inclusion. Thank you, Andrea. You are a wonderful partner doing great things, and we appreciate it. https://hoteletico.com.au/

Our first ever Biophilic Design guru drops by the Room WIth A View Studio for a chat at No Vacancy. Ozge talks about all things refurbishment and bringing nature into the built form. www.boxareno.com.au www.cocoplum.com.au

Our second Irene Cara song and our first Feng Shui Master on A Room With A View. A fascinating conversation with Jane Langof on A Room WIth A View at No Vacancy. fengshuiconcepts.com.au

Hotel industry legends Michael Johnson and Ted Horner drop by the Room With A View studio at No Vacancy. Pour a glass of the good stuff, sit back and enjoy this one.

Industry Icon Michael Smith drops by for a chat in the mobile Room With A View studio. Live from #novacancy.

Long-time listener, first-time podcaster, and very good friend of a Room With View - Nikki George, drops in for a chat at #novacancy.

Jerry Schwartz and David Thompson kick us off

Mee So Grateful - Feras Ahmed called in to say hi. Feras is a General Manager doing great things—we loved this chat at #novacancy.

To bring us home and closeout day one of No Vacancy Public Sculptures' expert Todd Stuart calls in for a chat. We learnt a lot about public art today. https://www.instagram.com/toddstuartsculptor/reel/C7jJ_Chsjje/?locale=zh_CN