Sep 11, 2026
Most people don’t look at a 12th-century monastery in rural Umbria and think, “We should turn this into a hotel.”
Cathi Lutjens and Fred Kubierschki did.
They left the corporate hospitality world, took a chance on an unlikely opportunity and created Vocabolo Moscatelli around a simple idea: build the kind of place...
Sep 10, 2026
The next wave of hotel growth won’t look like the last one.
Bruce Ford with Lodging Econometrics joins me on No Vacancy to look at how the global #HotelDevelopment pipeline is shifting — and where the industry’s next big opportunities are starting to emerge.
Conversions increasingly drive growth in mature markets,...
Sep 9, 2026
True luxury means not having to think about the details.
Almando Rigby, general manager of Windjammer Landing in Saint Lucia, joins me on No Vacancy to explain why today’s #LuxuryTravel guest expects a hotel to understand what they want before they ever have to ask.
That creates an interesting challenge. Hotels now...
Sep 8, 2026
Hotels spend years collecting guest data, then lose sight of what people want the moment they’re actually staying in the room.
Kevin Rohani, founder and CEO of Camo Hospitality, joins me on No Vacancy to talk about that blind spot. Guests order food, transportation, entertainment and other services during their stay,...
Labor Day Flashback: Marriott Vacations Worldwide Launches Experience-Driven Ownership: Inner Circle
Sep 7, 2026
Live experiences drive operating success because they create
reasons to travel, reasons to spend, and reasons to come back.
That’s why Marriott Vacations Worldwide is building Inner Circle
around them.
During ARDA, I talked with Mike
Flaskey, President and COO of Marriott Vacations
Worldwide, about what changes when...