Matt Talks Hospitality: Real conversations for innovative hoteliers

Matt Talks Hospitality is a podcast for hoteliers who want to understand the technology, ideas and people shaping modern hospitality. Hosted by Mews CEO Matt Welle, each episode explores the tools, challenges and decisions behind how hotels work – and how they keep getting better. All episodes available here: https://hubs.ly/Q0350wrf0Meet Matt beyond the podcast: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthijswelle/

Matt Talks Hospitality: Real conversations for innovative hoteliers is a business podcast hosted by Powered by mews.com, with 87 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #91

  SiteMinder's Leah Rankin on hotel distribution in the age of AI

  Aug 19, 202630 minS10

  SiteMinder's distribution engine, the largest in the world, is now being built natively into Mews. Availability, rates, inventory and other content are now handled in one place: Mews Channel Manager, powered by SiteMinder. This closes the gap that hotels have had to bridge manually between two systems. Leah Rankin of SiteMinder joins Matt to talk about what this partnership changes for hoteliers, how hotels should think about their channel strategy, and where AI is taking distribution next.

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  Episode #90

  Mews secures an EMI license: What this opens up for hotels and hospitality finance. Ft. Maximilian Lehmann

  Aug 13, 202625 minS10

  Mews has just been granted an Electronic Money Institution license from De Nederlandsche Bank, making it the first vertical hospitality operating system in the European Economic Area to hold one. Matt talks to Maximilian Lehmann, CEO of Mews Financial Services, the regulated subsidiary of Mews that holds the license, about what it is, why Mews pursued it, and what it can open up for hoteliers and the hospitality industry.

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  Episode #89

  Guest data and direct bookings with the top 3 CRM solutions on Mews Marketplace

  Aug 5, 202627 minS9

  Guest data is the most underused asset in most hotels. It sits fragmented across the PMS, the OTA, the spa system and a dozen other touchpoints, and most of it never gets acted on. In this episode, Matt puts the spotlight on three CRM solutions from the Mews Marketplace that are tackling exactly that problem. Hear Daan de Bruijn, co-founder of Bookboost, Bryson Koehler, CEO of Revinate, and Benjamin Devisme, Senior Problem Solver at Quinta (previously Quicktext), talk about turning data into direct bookings and stronger guest relationships.

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  Episode #88

  Can AI-based pricing lift hotel revenue? Testing the impact of Mews RMS autopilot ft. Richard Smithies & Conor Winders

  Jul 29, 202629 minS9

  When you deploy tech the right way, it makes you more revenue, more money. That's hard to prove, since a hotel changes more than one thing at once. Today we bring the data. Mews ran one of its most rigorous studies, across over 6,000 hotels, isolating one system, Mews RMS. What happens when a hotel deploys it, and switches on autopilot? Richard Smithies, Director of Data, led the study. Conor Winders, VP of Product and Engineering, built the product. They’re here to take you through the tech and the data showing a 13% revenue uplift in hotels using the Mews RMS autopilot pricing feature.

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  Episode #87

  The accidental hotelier who made membership more profitable than lodging. Ft. Jim Deters of Gravity Haus

  Jul 22, 202644 minS9

  What if the room was the least interesting thing about your hotel? Jim Deters looked at a ski town in Colorado and decided to build something else entirely: a tribe. He is the founder and CEO of Gravity Haus, an adventure lifestyle hotel and membership club with properties across the Rocky Mountain West. Jim's a tech entrepreneur turned accidental hotelier, and someone who gives his general managers stock options, which tells you everything you need to know about how differently he thinks. Jim joins Matt to talk about the membership model, the tech stack, and how he's built something that guests are willing to pay for twice: once for the room, and once to belong.

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