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
64 episodes
The Optimist Edge with Mauricio Prieto
Is AI changing everything or just accelerating what was already true?In this episode of Experience This!, we sit down with Mauricio Prieto, co-founder of eDreams and creator of Travel Tech Essentialist, to explore the real impact of AI ...
AI is rewriting the Tour Operator Playbook
In this episode of Experience This!, we sit down with Jack Harris, founder of Tally Ho Experiences, to explore how AI is moving from a “nice-to-have” to the core of running a tours and activities business. From vibe coding custom dashboards to ...
S4 E5 She Shapes History: The Hidden Stories of The Women Who Built New York
Lori, Bruce and Christian are joined by Beth Santos and Nikki Padilla Rivera to discuss She Shapes History New York, a walking tour concept focused on the hidden history of women. From storytelling and experience design to creator-led travel bu...
S4 E3 Will Tour Operators stop buying software? Vibe Coding introduced!
What if tour operators could build their own software in minutes without writing a single line of code? In this episode, former Carpe Diem CMO Oli Green introduces “vibe coding,” a new (not so new) AI driven way to create custom tools jus...
S4 E2. The Party Economy meets the Experience Industry and Batch is leading the way
Group celebrations aren’t just trips. They’re high-intent, multi-booking moments. In this episode of Experience This!, we talk with the CEO of Batch about how celebration-driven demand is reshaping discovery, booking behavior, and operato...
S4E1 Driving an 85% repeat rate and bringing a 40 year old Tour Business into the digital age
Sustainable Travel, Intellectual Travel, Niche, Luxury Travel, Food, Discovery, Small Groups. You name it and Mary Collins from Far Horizons and Blue Fern Travel covers it all. She's a rockstar and she joins Experience This! ...
S3 E 15 Keyguides Connect - redefining the hunt for the perfect Tour Guide
Nick Gray, Co-Founder of Keyguides Connect introduces his approach to how Tour Guides are searched, booked and run their businesses.
S3 E 14 Peek raises $70M and acquires ACME Ticketing and Connect & GO
Josiah Filler, CRO at Peek joins the Experience This! Travel Show to discuss Peeks $70M raise and acquisition of Connect & Go and ACME Ticketing.
S3 E13 James Lemon from Stripe talks Instant Checkout inside Chat GPT
James Lemon from Stripe joins us as we discuss Instant Check out in Chat GPT, the world of Agentic Commerce Protocol vs. Model Context Protocol and how operators can ready themselves for this new world.
S3 E 12 Rediscovering Groupon with Carrie Keplinger and Masha Sharma
Groupon is dusting itself off, investing heavily in Tech, becoming an AI first company and dominating the Things To Do space. Listen in as Carrie Keplinger and Masha Sharma walk us through why the TTD vertical at Groupon has seen do...
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Season 3. Episode 9 - Murray Decker
In this episode we learn about multi-day tour tech from Murray Decker, founder and CEO, Tour Amigo. Tour Amigo is a leading SaaS platform for the multi-day sector. There are surprisingly few SaaS platforms for multi-day tech, and Murray discuss...
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...
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...
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,...
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.
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...
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.
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!
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...
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...
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...