We aim to discuss topics relevant to professionals within the Hotel, Travel & Leisure sectors.
Whether you are in a Revenue Management function, Reservations, Front Office Operations, Digital Marketing or Sales, we hope the topics discussed will be of interest and either answer some questions or prompt some more.
Wanting to Adopt AI Is Not a Problem But Lack of AI Fluency in Commercial Teams Is
Everyone in hospitality is talking about AI - but is your hotel's commercial operation actually ready for it? In this episode of the AI Reality Check Series, I talk with Nicole Adair, Product leader at FLYR Hospitality, to cut through the hype and get honest about what “AI ready” really means for hotel revenue, marketing, distribution, sales, and GM teams.
Nicole breaks down the gaps hotels rarely talk about: why “we want more AI” isn't a problem statement, why basic AI fluency (not a data science degree) is the missing skill on most commercial teams, why leadership and culture set the tone for adoption, and how to tell a genuine AI-driven platform from software that's simply rebranded itself as “AI” to justify a higher price tag.
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● Flyr Hospitality: https://www.flyrhospitality.com/ (https://www.flyrhospitality.com/)
● Connect with Nicole Adair on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-adair/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-adair/)
● Revenue Hub: https://revenue-hub.com/ (https://revenue-hub.com/)
● Connect with Trevor Grant on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-grant-revenue-hub/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-grant-revenue-hub/)
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22 Jul 2026
Why Problematic Hotels Can Be The Most Valuable for AI to Learn From
Welcome to the next instalment of our AI Reality Check series, where we ask a simple question: if you're running a rubbish hotel, will AI actually make it a great one? 🤖🏨
In this conversation, I talk with Fulvio Giannetti, CEO of Lybra Tech, to explore why AI acts as an accelerator, magnifying whatever is already working (or already broken) inside a hotel's commercial operation.
🔑 In This Episode:
● Why AI amplifies existing problems instead of fixing them
● The real reason “bad data” usually isn't a technology problem
● How segmentation quality determines the value an RMS can deliver
● Why outliers are some of the most valuable data points you can have
● What actually separates a hotel that's ready for AI from one that isn't
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● Lybra Tech: https://www.lybra.tech/ (https://www.lybra.tech/)
● Connect with Fulvio Giannetti on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fulviogiannetti/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/fulviogiannetti/)
● Revenue Hub: https://revenue-hub.com/ (https://revenue-hub.com/)
● Connect with Trevor Grant on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-grant-revenue-hub/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-grant-revenue-hub/)
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21 Jul 2026
The Question Every Hotel Skips Before Buying AI (It's Not About the Software)
🏨📈🔍 AI won't turn a badly-run hotel into a great one - it'll just show everyone how badly it's being run. In this episode I talk with Tomasz Leszczynski of BEONx to unpack what "AI readiness" actually means for a hotel commercial team, and why most operators are asking the wrong first question.
✅ Why data quality, not software, is the real foundation for AI success
✅ The "empty process" trap - busywork that feels productive but adds zero value
✅ Why people always come before process, and process always comes before tech
✅ How clean data compounds into double-digit growth (and messy data kills ROI)
✅ Tomasz's real-world estimate: what % of hotel groups are actually AI-ready
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● BEONx: https://beonx.com/ (https://beonx.com/)
● Connect with Tomasz Leszczynski on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomasz-leszczynski7/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomasz-leszczynski7/)
● Revenue Hub: https://revenue-hub.com/ (https://revenue-hub.com/)
● Connect with Trevor Grant on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-grant-revenue-hub/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-grant-revenue-hub/)
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