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
- Update frequency
- every 15 days
- Average duration
- 47 minutes
- Episodes
- 53
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Show #14 - Cautious optimism for 2023 / Google Things to do update / AI at Arival
On show #14 we had two guest stars, Alexi Tabrizi, Senior VP Global Sales, Big Bus; and Tina Kyriakis, found and CEO, Alternative Athens join us to talk about their experience talking to 100s of peop…
Show #13 - The Rebirth of Alan Turing and What it Means for Experiences
Host Christian Watts and Marc Mekki, "Innovation & Design Thinking Speaker" who presented the keynote at Arival 360 Berlin that everyone is talking about. During Arival, Marc brought Alan Touring to …
Episode #12 - Women in Experiences
Women In Experiences - climbing up the ladder, challenges along the way, gender pay gap. Dominique Sidley from Merlin, Judy Gauthier from Go City and Natalie Hernandez from Xplorie join Lori, Bruce a…
Show #10 - Social Platforms & Influencers
We are joined in this show by Marica Mackenroth Brewster, founder & CEO, Von Mack Agency. We talk about the "Trip Hacks experiment" , YouTube, Tiktok, Instagram, new influencer platforms, MrBeast and…
Episide #9 - News Update and ChatGPT Pitch Show Info
Our hosts Lori, Christian and Bruce talk about Destination Experiences news, investments and upcoming events.
Introducing a ChatGPT Pitch session, live streamed on LinkedIn on Wednesday February 15 at…
Show #8 - Immersive Experiences
This is a great episode featuring Vince Kadlubek, co-founder, former CEO and visionary, Meow Wolf; and Ana Araque, co-founder, Imagine Experiences and a 30 year veteran of the travel industry.
Highli…
Episode #7 - The latest from APAC. China opens, Tech, Loyalty & more
This show starts to scrape the surface of what to expect in APAC as China begins to re-open to inbound and outbound travel. We feature three experts, Baidi Li of Go City, Hannah Pearson of Pear Ander…
Show #6 - Experiences Industry News Update
Co-hosts Lori Timony, Christian Watts and Bruce Rosard discuss the latest news happenings in the Experiences sector. China's re-opening, India, Corporate Event Experiences, NFTs and more.
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Show #5 - Talking about Groups
Show #5 covers an often overlooked opportunity in the Experiences Industry - Group Sales. Instead of chasing individual sales withe high acquisition costs, groups represent "old school" distribution …
Show #4 - The most widely read articles on arival.travel in 2022, Passion Travel, more
This show features Janelle Visser, editor for Arival reviewing the most read articles on arival.travel in 2022. We are also joined by Dan Christian from Dharma who discusses the passion economy and h…
Show #3 - Top 10 Trends: 2022 ----- > 2023
In this episode we discuss the Top 10 trends in the Experiences Sector - looking back to Bruce's predictions in 2022 and forward to 2023. Guests Carlee Stellfox Loya, Robin Harnish, and Dan Flores j…
Show #2 - The End of GetYourGuide Originals (for now!)
Co-hosts Lori, Christian and Bruce are joined by Stephen Oddo, President of Walks and Devour Tours and Jose Arozarena, founder & CEO, Amigo Tours to talk about GetYourGuide's decision to end its Orig…
Show #1 - The Pilot
Co-hosts Lori Timony, Christian Watts and Bruce Rosard introduce the Experience This! Show.
What is it? Why is it? How is it?
Including brief introductions and a conversation about ChatGPT in the expe…