Behind the Stays
Hosted by Zach Busekrus and Scott Eddy and Ben Wolff and Edwin Kramer · Zach Busekrus
4.9from 213 ratings
- 393
- Episodes
- 214
- Transcribed
- 213
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
- 95K
- YouTube views
About Behind the Stays
Welcome to Behind the Stays — a podcast that shares the stories behind your favorite boutique hotels, short-term rentals, and hospitality brands and the hosts, operators, and entrepreneurs who’ve brought them to life. Every Tuesday and Friday you’ll meet the military veterans, retired flight attendants, tech entrepreneurs, school teachers, single moms, hoteliers, and real estate investors who are all, in their unique ways, shaping the future of travel and hospitality. Discover how these visionaries — from all over the world — have built stunning landscape hotels in the mountains, designed bohemian bungalows on the beach, erected eclectic off-grid and nature-immersed escapes, and so much more. Behind the Stays is brought to you by Journey — a first-of-its-kind loyalty program that brings together an alliance of the world’s top independently owned and operated stays and allows travelers to earn points and perks on boutique hotels, vacation rentals, treehouses, ski chalets, glamping experiences and so much more. Behind the States is hosted by Zach Busekrus, Head of the Journey Alliance.
- Publisher
- Zach Busekrus
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 8 Jan 2021
- Latest episode
- 7 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
214 of 393 episodes have a transcript.
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
An Empty Pool Is Perishable Inventory - Here's How ResortPass Turned It Into Revenue
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Empower Your People: Staypineapple's Dina Belon-Sayre on Personality-Driven Hotels and the AI Threat to Independents
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Hilton This Week in Hospitality: Says AI Is Coming for the OTAs, Kayak's Founders Launch Lola, and Choice Buys Harvest Hosts for $130M
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An Empty Pool Is Perishable Inventory - Here's How ResortPass Turned It Into Revenue
Published 7 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] There's a lot of other hours and ways in which people want to use the actual rooms. I learn every single day about our users. excuse me and the way that they use those day rooms from our reviews and you know it's from people who need a place you know for for work environments people who need a moment of refresh between maybe their daytime work and an evening in the evening out or black tie affair people who are going to the local hospital you know to visit a loved one and they want a place to kind of rest in between and so really it's every single service that I think there's one thing I hope to leave with your listeners is that we and the hospitality industry have been very restrictive around thinking the guest is just the person who sleeps in room 412. […]
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- Michael Wolf
- Dina Belon-Sayre
- Jennifer Barnwell
- Heidi Zimmer
- Vanessa Aguirre
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 95,033
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 124 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 89 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 75 / 100
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- Quality
- 81
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 85
- Engagement
- 89
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Who hosts Behind the Stays?
Zach Busekrus and Scott Eddy and Ben Wolff and Edwin Kramer host the show. Published by Zach Busekrus.
How often do new episodes come out?
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Does Behind the Stays take guests?
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