Hotel Moment

In this special New Year's Eve episode, Brenna Turpin, Marketing Coordinator at Revinate, celebrates Hotel Moment reaching over 500,000 listeners by revisiting the year's most memorable conversations. She highlights Jeff Wielgopolan from Meadowood Napa Valley defining luxury as "the ability to not have to think," Sky McLean from Basecamp Resorts describing her unconventional path from two Airbnbs to a $600 million empire, Ben Campbell from Hospitality America sharing crisis management during Hurricane Helene when hotels operated without water for three weeks, and Agnelo Fernandes from Cote Hospitality explaining why culture came before revenue in his strategic priorities. The compilation demonstrates that hospitality excellence comes from bold leadership decisions centered on people.

In this special holiday episode, Brenna Turpin, Marketing Coordinator at Revinate, revisits the most memorable moments from Hotel Moment's episodes in 2025. She highlights both entertaining and insightful clips, from Bashar Wali's bold take that "points are bribery, not loyalty" to Sky McLean's wild origin story of financing her first hotel with a BMW loan. On the technology side, she features Matthijs Welle on cybersecurity threats, Dimple Jethani on master data management, Dana Cariss on transaction-level personalization, and Georgine Muntz on using PMS technology to combat human trafficking. The episode demonstrates how great hospitality balances human connection with intelligent technology.

In this latest episode of Hotel Moment, Brenna Turpin, Marketing Coordinator at Revinate, unifies six direct booking strategies into one connected holiday playbook. She synthesizes insights from Hotel Moment guests including Renee Murrieta from Show.Tell. on duplication and inclusion for personalized campaigns where 70% of travelers expect tailored communication, Ellis Connolly from Laasie explaining how transactional and emotional loyalty blend together, and Jason Wells from Revinate describing French Lick Resorts' approach where reservation agents capture guest interests early for precision follow-up. The six strategies work as one system: loyalty, segmentation, OTA win back, cart abandonment, lead nurture, and upsells, demonstrating how Brittain Resorts and Hotels generated $63 million in direct revenue using these unified elements.

In this forward-looking episode, Hotel Moment co-hosts Karen Stephens, Chief Marketing Officer at Revinate, and Brenna Turpin, Marketing Coordinator at Revinate, preview the five critical trends that will shape hospitality in 2026. Drawing from guest conversations throughout 2025, they explore how hyper-personalization is evolving from data collection to activation, why unified tech stacks with CDPs as anchors are replacing legacy system patchworks, and how real-time decisioning enables dynamic responses to weather, events, and occupancy patterns. They also address escalating cybersecurity concerns and the evolution of guest communication platforms into orchestration hubs that create seamless experiences across the entire guest journey.

In this latest episode of Hotel Moment, Brenna Turpin reveals your most expensive guest: the one who keeps booking through OTAs. With winback campaigns averaging 41% open rates and $5-6 revenue per email, discover how to redirect OTA bookers to your most profitable channel. Learn from industry leaders about investing in direct booking strategies, explore Voco Belfast's storytelling approach, and get holiday-specific tactics for capturing Christmas and New Year bookings before guests default to OTAs again.