The travel marketing podcast designed to help marketers and content creators find, write, and share their story with the world. With experience marketing award-winning hotels, Amy Draheim helps listeners craft stories worth sharing—stories that do more than sell a room or destination—they inspire.
According to Bashar Wali, we exist in a world where Instagrammable moments rule, where service is too often mistaken for hospitality, and where you can ace a guest satisfaction survey and still be a …
Lindsay Paige Stein joins Amy on the first of a limited series focused on entrepreneurship. Lindsay is a NYC-based freelance writer and publicist, and the founder of The Roundtrip Collective.
Travel is different right now. Rethink the staycation model to meet this moment: think workcations, schoolcations, hybrid meetings, and more.
Sagar Bhakta joins Amy to talk all about e-commerce for hotels. Sagar shares actionable tips on how to increase website conversions, so with the same traffic to your site, you can drive more bookings…
In part two, Joey Hamilton talks through how we can begin to broaden our perspective by making marketing more inclusive, and how casting a wider net can benefit the hotels, communities, and destinati…
You posted a black box, now what? Brand strategist Joey Hamilton joins the conversation to lead us through the intersection of tourism and the Black Lives Matter movement. This part one of a two part…
Moniqua Lane goes deeper into how she built a hotel that represents the community, a hilarious brush with a celebrity, and plans for her next project, The Citizen Hotel. This is part two of a two par…
Lawyer turned hotelier Moniqua Lane joins the show to talk about how she fell into hospitality, her response to the multiple crises we’re facing as a country, how that response has played out at the …
Amy discusses emerging travel trends to expect this fall. If you’re in the hospitality industry, you won’t want to sleep on these movements effecting the future of travel.
Less is more, but not when it comes to guest communications. Now is the time to over communicate with your guests. Start by creating a script for your Front Desk agents. Take in-room materials online…
From leveraging guest reviews to harnessing the power of influencers, Amy shares 5 storytelling ideas for hotels. Listeners will also get a sneak peek of Marketing In A Box, a limited time, monthly s…
In this bonus episode, Amy looks back on the last 16, and shares some future plans. Going forward, you'll hear from her once every two weeks this summer. Tune in to find out what's keeping Amy so bus…
Aditi Verma joins Amy on a trip down memory lane. The friends and former colleagues go back—way back—to the 2008 recession. Aditi talks through costly major revenue management mistake hotels made bac…
Amy visits Lithia Springs Resort for her own staycation to witness the new guest experience first hand, and shares how to attract guests to your hotel this summer in the new age of travel.
Eve Dreher joins Amy to talk through the pillars of branding which remain a grounding force during crisis, four mindset shifts among travelers, and the new guest experience.
When Damon Lawrence looked around at hotel experiences, management, and ownership, he noticed something was missing: Black people. Damon set out to change that, and launched Homage Hospitality, the f…
Amy answers a question from a hotel client in Belize. Colleen wants to know if Instagram Stories is worthwhile. Amy shares valuable tips, plus a hotel hashtags resource, to make getting started on In…
Sure TikTok's the new kid in town, but tried-and-true Facebook should continue to play a key role in your social media marketing mix. In this rapid fire 20-minute episode, Amy shares 8 Facebook tips …
Alyssa Ramos dreamed of turning her life into a travel movie, she had no idea it would become a blockbuster. Alyssa joins the show to talk about life as a full time travel blogger, and how to do what…
Amy taps into the Class of 2020 to learn how to make marketing more efficient, from apps, tech, and social media, to adopting their beginner's mindset.