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“Hotel Tech : Innovators + Influencers” Podcast Launches
Hotel Tech: Innovators + Influencers | May 4, 2022
No Vacancy’s Glenn Haussman and Michael Frenkel’s Travel Conversations New Podcast Features Peer-to-Peer Conversations with the Leaders Shaping the Industry’s Reinvention and Disruption NEW YORK, May 4, 2022 – Two hospitality industry thought leaders are teaming up to tell the stories of the visionaries who are funding, disrupting, and reinventing the future of hotel technology. Hosted by Glenn Haussman and Michael Frenkel, “Hotel Tech: Innovators + Influencers” is a 12-part limited podcast series sharing stories of how inspiration and innovation created a new class of hospitality tech leaders; and how they are shaping the futu...
Arne Sorenson, In Memoriam
Michael Frenkel | February 17, 2021
By Michael Frenkel I did not know Arne Sorenson well. Met him at some private industry events - collaborated at a distance on Thought Leadership projects. Like the rest of the industry, I mourned his death upon learning of it, though I was not shocked at the outcome or the timing: my mom was lost to late stage cancer a few years back, and one learns to read the signals, signs and pronouncements, even if from a distance. It spares few, and makes an ineluctable beeline toward its intended conclusion. Apart from the obvious business impact - the industry lost the head of its flagship and most influential company - Arne’s passing ...
HospitalityVIEW Q & A With Tom Corcoran: The Hotel Industry in 2021
Michael Frenkel | December 14, 2020
Following a year of dramatic shifts and continuous uncertainty, hoteliers are hopeful about finding new footing in 2021. However, with so much noise about the potential state of the industry, it's useful to hear from senior players who have been there and done it for decades - building companies, brands and creating shareholder value throughout market cycles. HospitalityVIEW brings such leaders together regularly to advance industry thinking. Michael Frenkel, President of MFC PR and moderator for HospitalityVIEW, caught up with charter member and President of TCOR Hotel Partners, Tom Corcoran, after the group’s most recent meeting. ...
PR and Visibility for Your Start Up: Making the Right Moves
Michael Frenkel | January 25, 2018
By Michael Frenkel, MFC PR Having worked with dozens of start up companies in the hospitality space, I get the question all the time: How do you allocate budget the right way to accelerate the visibility of your start up, and reach critical decision-makers? There's no simple answer. Here are some of the considerations that can guide you as your think about the shortest path to bringing your brand to the consciousness of the right hospitality audiences – to stoke sales and reach scale. 1. Have you raised money, or are you just setting about to do so? The single biggest consideration is where you are in your fundraising cycle &ndash...
