New Tricks Podcast

This week we talk to Felicity Jones, Head of Hotels EMEA and Global Real Estate sector Head at Watson Farley and Williams. Has the pandemic created greater alignment across the hotel stack or are we all hurrying back from whence we came? And when is the Quarter of Reckoning, do you reckon? Strategic PR from hotel experts. New Tricks is the weekly podcast from NewDog PR, a strategic PR company whic...

Welcome to the latest episode of New Tricks. This week we’re joined by Asli Kutlucan, CDO at Cycas Hospitality, where we’ll be discussing how to get through passport control in 10 hours or less and how hotels will have to become more flexible in every way as we come out of the pandemic. Strategic PR from hotel experts. New Tricks is the weekly podcast from NewDog PR, a strategic PR company which u...

Welcome to episode no 22 of New Tricks, where this week we are talking to David Bailey, principal at David J Bailey Ltd and advisor to Resident Hotels. As the sector takes the chance to reboot, we mull over whether an energetic push can help it sell the belief that people really are key to a working population which has fallen out of love with hospitality. Strategic PR from hotel experts. New Tric...

This week we’re joined by Christian Mole, head of hospitality and leisure at EY, and we speculate on the transactions market, business travel and what the tourist board of Southampton can possibly be doing. Strategic PR from hotel experts. New Tricks is the weekly podcast from NewDog PR, a strategic PR company which understands investing in hotels and the many roles within them. This podcast is a...

This week Carine Bonnejean, Managing Director - Hotels at Christie & Co joins us and shares her, very revealing, memories of Anders Nissen as well as an update on deals, pricing, where the looming distress is and homeless shelters as the latest investment trend. Strategic PR from hotel experts. New Tricks is the weekly podcast from NewDog PR, a strategic PR company which understands investing...

Matthias Huettebraeuker, hospitality strategist, founding partner of Denizen and advisor to citizenM joins us to discuss The Future and all that lies ahead including the welcome return of the company of others. We also muse over Airbnb’s flexible announcements which come on the tail of their first-quarter earnings call. Whilst thrilling that Brian now knows what a yurt is, detail is still lacking...

Welcome to episode 18 of New Tricks, where this week we’re joined by Andy Easton, Managing Director at Beach Retreats and Ben Harper, group managing director, Watergate Bay Hotel, Beach Retreats and Another Place. We’re debating summers past and future and why we’d all be a lot more creative if we could all work beside the seaside, beside the sea. Strategic PR from hotel experts. New Tricks is the...

This week Emily and I are joined by Steve Lowy, CEO, Anglo Educational Services & The Residence Apartments and top 50 sector influencer to talk abut where hotels sit in the wider hospitality community, how to make them attractive to students and why, when all this is over, we’re all going to travel like Anthony Bourdain. Strategic PR from hotel experts. New Tricks is the weekly podcast from Ne...

This week we’re joined by Christian Mole, Head of UK Hospitality at EY and we get down to business. If, and when, will the lucrative business travel sector resume and where is that deluge of leisure customers we’ve been promised? Check behind the sofa, in the sock drawer and possibly in the Christmas decoration box as well. If found, return to hospitality. Strategic PR from hotel experts. New Tric...

Welcome to this week’s episode of new tricks, where we were lucky enough to be joined by Robin Sheppard, president of Bespoke Hotels, to consider such concepts as what we’d do if we were Rishi Sunak and where the sector goes from here. Strategic PR from hotel experts. New Tricks is the weekly podcast from NewDog PR, a strategic PR company which understands investing in hotels and the many roles wi...

In this week’s episode we talk rent, specifically the estimated £2bn of unpaid rent to be found in the sector, and what the government plan to do about it. Not so much it seems. As outdoor dining opens, we imagine just how much outside hospitality fun we could have in 45 minutes and also talk Soho House and Sonder IPO news. Strategic PR from hotel experts. New Tricks is the weekly podcast from New...

This week’s episode is lucky number 13 and we’re lucky to be joined by Julie Grieve, founder and CEO at Criton, who shocks us all by suggesting that the guest should come first and maybe one of the great things to come out of the pandemic would be not having to elbow people at the bar any more. We also discuss what festive shapes you’d make out of crumpets, as M&S Paris manages to beat Brexit...

In this week’s episode, we talk leadership with Chris Mumford, Founder of Cervus Leadership Consulting. Has the pandemic refocused us from the endless pursuit of quarterly targets and reporting to being more human, showing vulnerability and shunting employee wellbeing up the caring meter? We also discuss how hotels are a handy deterrent to the counter globalisation culture and how the sector is in...

This week we’re joined by James Chappell, global business director at Horwath HTL, where we discuss what’s going to happen to hotels when government support ends and whether the Olsen Twins are going to be making a move if the wheels come off. Sound the pig! Strategic PR from hotel experts. New Tricks is the weekly podcast from NewDog PR, a strategic PR company which understands investing in hotel...

On International Women’s Day we reflect on the similarities between women and the hospitality sector – enforced gratitude and a repressed position to name a few– and wonder whether the industry should dial back on its hospitable nature? For further regular NewDog fun, don’t miss Katherine’s Friday column, available from the News section of www.newdogpr.co.uk . Strategic PR from hotel experts. New...

In this week’s episode we wonder whether the UK government’s roadmap will lead hotels down a blind alley and whether there is a backup plan if the pandemic takes a swerve. We also wonder whether membership of Accor Live Limitless might score us a vaccine and whether Airbnb putting its faith in getting good press is quite the 2021 strategy it thinks it is. And who WAS that guy who had a deals room...

In this week’s episode we’re joined by Jane Pendlebury, CEO of HOSPA the industry association helping hospitality's finance, revenue management, IT, marketing and asset management professionals. We’re also joined by the latest new dog, RSpuddy who oozed cuteness throughout, and other matter towards the end of the recording. We talked about the spirit of community, the amazing stories of hospitalit...

In this week’s episode we’re joined by Tom Oakden from Hilltop Hospitality Advisors to discuss results and deal murmurings – of which there are plenty. This packed podcast considers the enthusiasm for regional displayed by Pandox, asset repositioning and risk taking to produce strong results – a tea dance in the conference basement perhaps? Expedia’s results revealed the removal of vacation rental...

Welcome to this week’s episode, as the UK government gets ever closer to having a hotel quarantine plan, causing us to wonder what you’d put into a Hotel Quarantine cocktail. Something tangy, we suspect. PNK People’s Kevin Edwards joins us to discuss whether you can survive lockdown on six chocolate Hob Nobs, as well as IHG’s rebrand, why the planet matters and transactions in the world of timesha...

In this week’s episode we’re obviously all keen to learn what can be concocted with non-alcoholic pina colada, steak and hummus – please do listen back to episode 4 for some context - and also look to hope in the form of meat smuggling, Michael O'Leary (a name not widely synonymous with the concept) and a deal! A deal! As Blackstone snap up some UK domestic holiday fun in the form of Butlins we lo...

In this week’s episode we discuss the need for A Plan to get us out of this, which hair products Boris might like to consider (or any at all at this point), how AccorInvest might spend their newly acquired €500 million state guaranteed loan and domestic marketing. We were also mortified to hear that items on the shelves of M&S in Paris have been reduced to non-alcoholic pina colada (could ther...

In this weeks episode we discuss deep matters such as where hotels fit into hospitality, the rising possibility of a beach and vaccine travel package, and the first rumblings of that long awaited hotel transaction activity spotted in sub-saharan Africa, courtesy of Accor Invest. In less deep matters we also cover cheese sandwiches, toilet training toddlers, and guacomole. Oh variety! We hope you e...

As the end of the year approaches we look back at 2020 and discuss some of the most pressing issues that affected the sector: Travelodge, the voice of the sector, Airbnb's IPO amongst others. This episode was recorded in December 2020, before the current national lockdown in England. When tier 2, and someone else making the supper, was still very much a possibility. Emily and Katherine. LinkedIn:...

Hello and welcome to New Tricks, the weekly podcast from NewDog PR. We are a strategic PR company which understands investing in hotels and the many roles within them. This podcast is a chance to mull over the current goings on in Hotel Land and chat to some pleasant folk about things that they know. NewDog PR is:  Emily Newman Has an in depth knowledge of the hotel sector from both investor...