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Today's show featured incredibly amazing and emotional highs and lows. Jamie Lane Sr. Director, Economics & Forecasting at CBRE provides and update on the state of the hotel industry's real estate market while W Chris Green, CHA, of Chesapeake Hospitality gives his perspective. Then, Bianca Porto Barga joins. She was VP Membership, Performance and  Distribution at Luxe Collection Hotels, but was s...

Faisal Sublaban, President and CEO - Bonotel Exclusive Travel and Rebecca Alesiam, one of the highest performing travel agents join Glenn and Anthony.  

Today's show was awesome! We featured  David Rochefort , President of  Graduate Hotels ,  W Chris Green, CHA , CEO of  Chesapeake Hospitality , plus hospitality students join us to share their thoughts and experiences as they deal with the fallout of covid-19. Special thanks to NEWH and its New England Chapter for setting this up.

Chip Rogers, President/ CEO of AHLA shares a legislative update on what's being done for hospitality businesses, then we chat with Tye Turman, CEO Propel Companies and a former 30 year team member at Marriott.  

Lee Hunter, Hunter Hotel Advisors shares what is what like postponing his company's venerable industry conference, plus Kristi White, Knowland's VP of product management on best practices for key recovery strategies.

Matthew Hostetler , SVP with  Red Roof Franchising ,  Mark Skinner  of  The Highland Group  and Gary Delapp, who recently debuted  stayAPT Suites , a new extended stay brand. How will this category hold up in the future? We find out.

Revenue Management is more essential than ever! We have W Chris Green, CHA , CEO of Chesapeake Hospitality , his VP of Revenue Strategy Cassie Bond, CHRM, CRME and Roy Madhok, CRME, CHIA , VP of Revenue Management for Real Hospitality Group .

Today Glenn and Anthony Melchiorri were joined by Rod Jimenez, SHR, Sceptre Hospitality Resources, LLC 's CEO and Chinmai Sharma , President, Americas of RateGain for Hospitality who shared some hotel revenue generating ideas for now, and when this crisis abates. Plus insights on how hoteliers are handling their hotel operations.

Feel Good Friday Show with Rubin Ervin, Anthony Melchiorri 's friend whose a Hollywood audience hype guy. He keeps people engaged throughout TV show tapings.  Laugh along with us!  

Today we put vendors in the spotlight! Yani Deros of CIRQ+ ! Bob Tomaso, MBA Magic Chef! Stephen McKay Almo Hospitality ! W Chris Green, CEO Chesapeake Hospitality chimes in from operator side! Join Anthony Melchiorri and me to hear their real time experiences and how they're all focused on a team effort approach to get hoteliers through this crisis.

Today, Anthony Melchiorri and Glenn talk to Jagruti Panwala , AAHOA , Chairwoman who provides a legislative update as well as how people can apply for gov't SBA assistance, additional advocacy issues and more. Then, Cindy Herzog EVP, Operations with SMASHOTELS discusses how her company has pivoted and what they're doing next. Plus, Sean Worker , CEO of T5 Strategies-Building the future of Business...

Today, Glenn and Anthony are joined by Ray Martz, Pebblebrook, CFO & Chris Green, CEO of Chesapeake Hospitality

Jan Freitag of STR returned to update us on occupancy and rates for hotels globally in the wake of this crisis. Then we heard from David Eisen of HotStats about some encouraging news coming out of the Asian hotel market. Does that bode well for North America and Europe's future? Then Michael Taylor of J.D. Power shared a new survey that says a 'solid majority of customers have faith in the overall...

Today, Anthony Melchiorri and I featured  # HGTV  Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Designer Carrie Locklyn who shares stories from the set and reminices about her days working with Anthony on Hotel Impossible. Plus, Brian Newman, an incredible musician who has a residency at Nomad Las Vegas. First, Keith Kefgen on Servant Leadership and why Anthony was his 23rd pick (for real!) to be GM at The Algon...

What if your independent property could generate a 27% increase in ancillary revenue? Learn about the process, the people, the technology to do just that, as Glenn and Estella visit with one of HSMAI's Top 25 Extraordinary Minds in Hospitality Sales, Marketing, Revenue Optimization for 2019. Guests:  Linda Gulrajani, VP of Distribution and Marcus Hotels and an HSMAI 2019 Top 25 Extraordinary Minds...

Today we spoke with Raul Leal, CEO of Virgin Hotels about how his business and the critical nature of great communication. Then we're joined by Michael Shindler, President at Four Corners Advisors before being joined by W Chris Green, CHA. CEO of Chesapeake Hospitality who's been reading the CARES Act and shares what's good and bad in it for hoteliers!    

Sloan Dean  is CEO of  Remington Hotels . He's been making some difficult choices in the wake of covid-19 and shares his experiences while delivering some positive messaging. Then  Anthony Melchiorri  and I are joined by  Arun Upneja , Dean BU School of Hospitality Administration, Asst Prof  Taylor Peyton , and Faculty Chair  Leora Halpern Lanz, ISHC to discuss how students and teachers are adapti...

Today, Glenn and Anthony featured two guests. First up was Chris Green, CEO of Chesapeake Hospitality who is giving us regular real time updates on the issues he's dealing with at his near 40 hotels. Then, HSMAI President/ CEO Bob Gilbert who shared what his membership base is thinking, but more important how they're staying focused on brand and business building. This is an audio version of today...

Anthony Melchiorri and I speak with hotel developer David Messersmith JMJ Development, designer Brian G Thornton, purchasing pro Neil Locke @NEIL LOCKE & ASSOCIATES, L.L.C. and David James, III Astoria Compass supplier as to how they're processing the situation and how they're looking out for each other. Lots of tips on what to do now. This is an audio version of today's videocast.

Anthony and Glenn hosted a show today focusing on feeling good in tough times. Larry Broughton shares how he's handling his current work and life experience and gives us all tools in which to better cope in these tough times. Then Bruce Ford of Lodging Econometrics shares tips on free ways to have some fun while we all sit this out. this is an audio version of today's videocast.

Anthony and Glenn hear from the hotel industry's top leaders on Capitol Hill! AAHOA CEO Cecil Staton and American Hotel & Lodging Association CEO William "Chip" Rogers discuss the latest impacts on the hospitality business and how they're advocating for hotel owner small businesses and the entire industry as well. This is an audio version of today's videocast. 

Today, Anthony Melchiorri and Glenn Haussman spoke with hotel management companies about how they're faring and what they believe is a path forward. Guests include Chris Green, CEO of Chesapeake Hospitality; Chairman Mike Hines and Chief Development Officer Kerry Ranson of HP Hotels. This is an audio version of today's videocast . 

Sean Hennessy is CEO, Lodging Advisors and Asst. Professor at NYU. He focuses on financial and operational analysis of hotel investments and shares what he is seeing in the hotel market. This is an audio version of today's videocast.

Glenn and Anthony spoke with Jan Freitag, SVP of STR to understand the financial ramifications to the hotel industry because of what is happening. Listen now for important information.

First, Anthony Melchiorri and Glenn spoke with Dr. Primas, Travel MD from NYC. Anthony has known Dr. Primas since 991 from his days at The Plaza. With everything going on with the travel industry and the current health topic, we thought it best to talk to an expert. Here's what he said. ( this also ran as part of the series Checking In with Anthony and Glenn . Then Glenn speaks with AAHOA Presiden...