Entrepreneurship

portrait of, podcast guest on smack, Thomas Edelkamp

THOMAS EDELKAMP

Thomas Edelkamp Chairman Romantik Hotels & Restaurants AG The second episode of season 3 took us to the German Hotel Convention (Deutscher Hotelkongress 2021), hosted by the dfv Mediengruppe and ahgz. Thomas Edelkamp, Chairman of the Board at Romantik Hotels & Restaurants AG joined us during the event and told us about his career starting […]

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portrait of podcast guest on smack hospitality, michael levie

MICHAEL LEVIE

Michael Levie COO & Founder citizenM Welcome to season 3 of the SMACK Hospitality Podcast! To start the season in style, our season opener took place in Amsterdam and we spoke to Michael Levie of citizenM. Michael told us about the journey and hierarchy structure of citizenM and why it is totally different to other

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MICHAEL ROS

MICHAEL ROS Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder Bidroom Michael Ros joined us in season 2, we had the chance to sit down with the CEO & Co-founder of Bidroom, an OTC brand with the aim to enable fair travel, both for hotels and travelers. He shared his personal story and filled us in on how

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portrait of richard castle as podcast guest on smack hospitality

RICHARD CASTLE

RICHARD CASTLE President & Chief Operations Officer Cloudbeds Richard Castle, Co-Founder and COO of Cloudbeds takes this episode all the way to the West Coast of the United States. He joined us to tell his and Adam Harris’ story of how the story behind Cloudbeds unfolded. From two guys, who had nothing to do with

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JOSHUA GAN

JOSHUA GAN Regional Director of Asia & Pacific EHL Group Joshua Gan, Regional Director Asia/Pacific of the EHL Group, came to visit us on the show and told us about his journey from being a working student at the Ecole hotelière de Lausanne to becoming director of the Asia/Pacific Region and pushing forward the expansion

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portrait of podcast guest on smack hospitality, Wilko Weber

WILHELM (WILKO) WEBER

Wilhelm (Wilko) Weber VP Global & Digital Strategy Kempinski Wilhelm (Wilko) Weber, Vice President Global Revenue and Digital Strategy at Kempinksi came to visit us on the show – for a second time. Find out what went wrong in the first recording and discover what Kempinski has learned from the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of

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portrait of podcast guest on smack hospitality, Tobias Wann

TOBIAS WANN

Tobias Wann Global CEO OYO Vacation Homes Tobias Wann, Global CEO of OYO Vacation Homes, stopped by on the show to talk to us about the vacation homes business, its benefits and challenges and why it should really be called preferred accommodation, instead of alternative accommodation. Beyond that Tobias explained the importance of branding in

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