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- 🇨🇦CA · Business News#8930K to 100K
- 🇧🇪BE · Business News#4410K to 30K
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40K to 130K🇨🇦77%🇧🇪23% - Active Followers
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Kerten’s Marloes Knippenberg on hotel branding, experiences
Apr 23, 2026
41m 58s
Cervus’ Chris Mumford on labor, C-suite hires in the hotel industry
Apr 2, 2026
31m 13s
Christie & Co.’s Carine Bonnejean on European hotel transaction volumes
Mar 19, 2026
30m 24s
Global hotel market standouts from 2025 (with STR's Sarah Duignan)
Feb 19, 2026
29m 37s
How the UK budget will affect hospitality with Bridget Baker
Dec 22, 2025
31m 55s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 4/23/26 | Kerten’s Marloes Knippenberg on hotel branding, experiences | On this episode of The Upgrade, Marloes Knippenberg, CEO of Kerten Hospitality, said her and her company’s goal always has been to bring a fresh approach to the hotel and hospitality scene, starting a little more than a decade ago when owners began to want something different from a long list of brand standards. In the podcast with Terence Baker, news editor, EMEA, Knippenberg said that owner sea change more or less came in parallel to new demands of guests for more experiences. | 41m 58s | ||||||
| 4/2/26 | Cervus’ Chris Mumford on labor, C-suite hires in the hotel industry | The world of work is changing, with younger generations likely to have several careers, not just one linear one, said Chris Mumford, managing director at Cervus Leadership Consulting. | 31m 13s | ||||||
| 3/19/26 | Christie & Co.’s Carine Bonnejean on European hotel transaction volumes | Christie & Co.’s Carine Bonnejean joins the podcast to discuss how Spain and Italy top the table of hotel investment appetite in Europe. Italian destinations beyond Milan, Rome and Venice are coming to the attention of hotel investors. | 30m 24s | ||||||
| 2/19/26 | Global hotel market standouts from 2025 (with STR's Sarah Duignan) | STR’s Sarah Duignan joined The Upgrade podcast to discuss global hotel performance highlights from full-year 2025 data, including the huge impact of Formula 1 races in markets such as Abu Dhabi. | 29m 37s | ||||||
| 12/22/25 | How the UK budget will affect hospitality with Bridget Baker | Veteran hotel and hospitality consultant Bridget Baker, owner of Bridget Baker Consulting, joins the show to talk about how the U.K. government's November budget has put more pressure on hotel operations across the country. | 31m 55s | ||||||
| 11/20/25 | CEO Oliver Winter on a possible new brand for A&O | A&O Hotels & Hostels has expanded its name to include hotels and is pondering the establishment of a premium or luxury hostel brand, so said its CEO Oliver Winter, with its newly acquired hotel, the former DoubleTree by Hilton, Docklands Riverside, likely to be the test case. | 28m 27s | ||||||
| 10/23/25 | The return of the Chinese traveler to Europe (with China Daily's Mingjie Wang) | China Daily's Mingjie Wang joins "The Upgrade" to discuss the full recovery of Chinese outbound travel demand and how hoteliers can get their market share. | 25m 29s | ||||||
| 9/25/25 | Sustainability and hotel profitability, with HoCoSo's Katharine Le Quesne | Katharine Le Quesne, managing director at hospitality advisory HoCoSo, joins the podcast to discuss the state of the hotel industry's sustainability initiatives. Despite some pushback in certain parts of the world, sustainability remains a strategic focus of many hotel firms. | 31m 51s | ||||||
| 8/14/25 | Oasis v Swift, and other trends across Europe (with William Anns) | STR's William Anns joins the podcast to talk about why Southern Europe continues to shine in terms of hotel performance and dives into how hotels have fared during the recent Oasis tour compared to Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. | 24m 41s | ||||||
| 5/7/25 | How TUI continues to scale in-house brands TUI Blue and The Mora | Wesam Okasha, managing director of TUI Blue Hotels, joins The Upgrade: EMEA Hospitality News podcast to discuss how TUI has evolved from being solely a package and all-inclusive tourism firm to one with standalone, in-house hotel brands TUI Blue and The Mora. | 18m 16s | ||||||
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| 2/27/25 | How hotels could leverage AI, with Hospitality Technology Advisory’s Kevin Edwards | Kevin Edwards, CEO of Hospitality Technology Advisory, joined The Upgrade: EMEA Hospitality News to discuss the business case for more artificial intelligence in the hotel industry. | 22m 51s | ||||||
| 1/30/25 | STR’s Alex Robinson on the hotel trends shaping 2025 | In this episode of The Upgrade: EMEA Hospitality News, Hotel News Now talks with STR’s Alex Robinson about the continuing demand boost across the hotel industry in Europe, Middle East and Africa. However, the 2025 events calendar in Europe isn't quite as robust as 2024 with both the Olympics in Paris and the European Football Championships across in Germany. | 27m 47s | ||||||
| 12/16/24 | Studio Moren’s Sharon Grob and David Harte talk design, segmentation, luxury and aesthetic | In this episode of The Upgrade: EMEA Hospitality News, Hotel News Now chats with Studio Moren's Sharon Grob and David Harte about how design makes hotels stand out for guests and add value to owners. | 32m 27s | ||||||
| 11/25/24 | Dimitris Manikis talks Wyndham, value creation and mentorship | Dimitris Manikis, president, Europe, Middle East and Africa, said his firm Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is perfectly placed to take full benefit of the new surge in franchising seen across Europe. | 28m 29s | ||||||
| 10/29/24 | Investors’, branded hotel firms’ appetite increases for serviced apartments | The success of serviced apartments as a lodging type and burgeoning asset class has grown in recent years. But Cheval Collection executive Daniel Johansson says the segment needs more and better product offerings. | 25m 38s | ||||||
| 9/24/24 | How Oasis could rival Taylor Swift - at least for UK hotels with CoStar's Cristina Balekjiane | Cristina Balekjian, director of United Kingdom hospitality analytics at CoStar, joins The Upgrade to talk about how Oasis' first tour in 16 years could rival Taylor Swift's Eras Tour in terms of travel demand. | 27m 53s | ||||||
| 8/22/24 | STR’s Tom Emanuel on Parisian Hotels During the 2024 Olympic Games | STR’s Tom Emanuel joins The Upgrade: The Hotel News Now Europe, Middle East and Africa podcast to discuss hotel performance in Paris during the recent 2024 Olympic Games and mentions a few of his favorite sporting moments from this and other Olympics. | 23m 11s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.
Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.