Experience This! Travel Industry Insights and Opinions
Produced and hosted by three travel industry veterans, Experience This! is a weekly show focused on In-Destination Experiences and how tech and trends are impacting this $280B segment of the world's largest industry (travel and tourism). Part podcast, part YouTube, part LinkedIn, Experience This! is designed for everyone in the sector including small one woman bands up to the largest attractions in the world and the tech, distribution and services companies that make up the industry ecosystem. Featuring Lori Timony, Go City, Christian Watts, Magpie and Bruce Rosard, Arival. Marketing provided by Von Mack Agency
Episodes
52 episodes
Season 3. Episode 6 - Chris Andrew, Scrunch AI
The show with Chris and co-hosts Lori Timony and Christian Watts was one of the most practical shows we've had about AI in a while.&nbs...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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46:12
Season 3. Episode 5 - Jessie Fischer - GuestOS
Get introduced to Jessie Fischer, Founder & CEO, GuestOS. Jessie got an early start in the hospitality business, starting when she was 12 years old, working at her family's motel near Yosemite National ParkGuestOS is an AI-driven co...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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44:34
Greg Fisher, Founder and CEO of Wave Rez and Tripshock introduces his new book "Mastering OTA's."
Greg Fisher, Founder and CEO of Tripshock and Wave Rez and author of "Mastering OTA's" joins the team at Experience This! Travel to discuss the need for and rise of niche OTA's, how Google is changing the search and buy landscape and of course,...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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51:32
Episode 52 - The Hosts Discuss (Argue?) About the Potential Disintermediation of OTAs
How will AI Agents impact OTAs and Google's Market share?We have a difference of opinion - shocking I'm sure.
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25:51
Season 3. - Episode 2: TikTok About To Go Dark / AI Update
The plan was to have an AI update with Tahnee Perry from A25 featuring a discussion about her toolkit (115 and counting!). But since this is the week (January 17 to be exact) that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to uphold the U.S. ban...
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Season 2 - The Final Episode. 2024 in Review
The Experience This! team joined an Arival Pro Insiders Meetup for a discussion about Bruce's top 10 trends from 2024.Not predictions or forecasts, but what were the top trends with a look back at the top trends from prior years.
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S2, E 21 Meet Justin Buzzi
Rap, Going Viral, Mastering Content, Customer Retention, Franchising and more with Justin Buzzi, CEO and Founder of Get Up and Go Kayaking!
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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52:43
S2, Ep #20 Patricia Yates, CEO of Visit Britain/ Visit England
Patricia Yates, CEO of Visit Britain/ Visit England fills us in on her recent trip to China, Visit Britain's upcoming launch of the latest "Film Tourism" campaign "Starring Great Britain" and how DMO's should consider the challenges of regenera...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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45:56
S2 E.19. Erika De Santi of We Road
Erika De Santi of We Road, Co-Founder and Chief of People Experiences joins Lori and Bruce to discuss We Road's secret sauce behind the companies highly successful growth strategy. Learn about how they are building communities one trip at...
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Episode 19
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48:39
Show #48 - Andy Moss, Mindtrip
Join Christian and Bruce as we learn about Mindtrip, one of the hottest AI startups in travel. With a recent raise of $12M bringing their total funding so far to $20M, the group of 12 founders have experience from companies including Google, Ap...
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Episode 48
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1:08:01
Show #47 featuring The Godfather of Tours & Activities - Rod Cuthbert, founder, Viator
The god-father of tours and activities, Rod Cuthbert, joined Experience This! hosts Lori Timony, Bruce Rosard and
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S2 Episode 14 Dan Christian of Travel Trends Podcast talks Multi Day Tours
Dan Christian of Travel Trends Podcast joins Bruce, Christian and Lori to discuss the growth of the Multi Day Tour Market highlighting distribution, tech, funding, raises and more!
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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49:11
Pete Comeau of Phocuswright joins us for a chat
Join Bruce and Lori as they sit down with Pete Comeau from Phocuswright to delve into PCW Barcelona, the future of Travel Tech investments, AI advancements, the Next Gen Traveler, and much more.
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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41:03
Show #42: The Experience Economy, It's About Time Well Spent
In this episode co-hosts Lori Timony and Bruce Rosard are joined by special guest Aransas Savas, Strategic Lead, Meaningful Motivation and Co-host of The Experience Strategy Podcast, as a leader of the Stone Mantel Team. An an Experience Strate...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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30:58
What's up with Airbnb Experiences?
There's so much happening at Airbnb related to Experiences, some of it well known, and some of it still being discovered by our industry.The big news, of course, is that they are removing 5000 experiences from their platform. And the wa...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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55:59
New Growth Strategies featuring Sarah Dines, Chief Commercial Officer, Viator
Viator sells more experiences than anyone in the world, by a wide margin.And they want to ensure they stay in the lead by continuing to focus on their top of the funnel and user acquisition strategies. At the same time, they want to rely le...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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55:20
Experience This! Show #39, Season 2, Show #9: The Future of Search
Experience This! Show #39 is one of our best yet. Today I heard three phrases I haven't heard before:SGE: Google Search Generative Experience (SGE) is a new approach to search results. It's an experimental search experience that uses ge...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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55:28
Building Women Entrepreneurs in the Travel and Tourism Industry
Meet Iris Serbanescu, owner of Wmns Work a Tourism Business Accelerator Program for Women and Non-binary early stage entrepreneurs. Meet Megan Kennedy, founder of Good Trip Adventures and past participant in Wmns Work.
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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46:12
Season 2, Show 5: Distribution and Trade Shows
The plan was to talk about distribution for the in-destination experiences sector. What's new, what hasn't changed. But the conversation started with discussions of trade shows and again, what's new and what hasn't changed. There were definitel...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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53:54
Season 2, Show 4: Innovation (or lack of) in the Travel Industry
Meredith Rangel of Bookable Tourism joins us to discuss innovation in the Travel Industry. Is the industry lagging behind. Are some sectors ahead of others? Is the market too fragmented to create the right conditions for innovation?
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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40:49
Season 2, Show 6: Weekend Update!
Joined by Stephen Oddo from Walks (subsidiary of Hornblower Group), we discuss the latest updates with the Hornblower Chapter 11, the shake-up at the top of Rezdy & the Fareharbor connection, and rumors from Tripadvisor / Viator. This is a ...
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Episode 6
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42:20
Season 2, Show #3: Christian's Top 6 Gen AI Topics entering "Year 2"
Who knows more than Gen AI for Experiences than our co-host Christian Watts? We say "nobody"!This show covers Christian's Year One overview and his prediction of what the top 6 topics for Gen AI will be for experiences as we enter...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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47:28
Season 2, Show #2 - A Mini Masterclass in Brand Marketing with Catherine Warrilow
If you are looking for a mini masterclass in Brand Marketing, you have come to the right place. Catherine Warrilow, Director of Brand Strategy for The Plot, joins Bruce Rosard and Lori Timony in an "all you need to know about Brand Market...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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35:08
Season 2, Show #1: Bruce's Top Ten Trends
Bruce's annual review of top trends for in-destination experiences with critiques from co-hosts Christian Watts and Lori Timony.Bruce's list includes the most important things for the in-destination experiences industry to be paying att...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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