Rejoice America, Jeff and Matt answer critical questions from fake listeners. If we could change one thing about the travel industry, what would it be? What are some of the best travel and travel business articles we've read this year? What's the next hot destination? What's the biggest trend coming for the industry in 2025? Whatever happened to Yakov Smirnoff?

Articles we mention:
The Branson Pilgrim

Airbnb's idea to hold gladiator battles in Rome's Colosseum isn't going down well with some local lawmakers

CBRE analysis of loyalty programs

Colorado’s I-70 Has America’s Most Notorious Ski Traffic. Is There a Solution?

LARC Quarterly Webinar

CBRE's Rachel Rothman and Christine Bang understand hotel brand performance and equity analysis like very few others in this business. We talk about the overall health grade they'd give to hotel loyalty programs, what we mean when we talk about luxury, hospitality partnerships aiming to reach new audiences, how loyalty programs can grow, and way, way more.

https://www.cbre.com/insights/reports/hotel-brand-performance-2024
https://www.cbre.com/insights/articles/hotel-loyalty-programs-betting-on-the-law-of-large-numbers
https://www.cbre.com/insights/viewpoints/maturation-of-the-hotel-industry-drives-convergence-with-other-sectors-to-facilitate-growth

If Greg Aretakis had a coaching tree, it would literally include every CEO and high-ranking executive in the airline industry. We talk with the Midwest Express Airlines president about the much-needed role of mid-sized airlines, how antitrust investigations get started, the future of private air travel and small airfields, whether completely electric planes will ever fly, and so so so much more!