Destination Marketing Shows

Nov. 13, 2024

Building a Boutique Brand: How Steve Turk Brings Hotel Standards to V…

In this episode, we sit down with Steve Turk, founder of Tangy Management, a vacation rental management company known for its unique hotel-inspired approach to hospitality. With over 24 years of experience in luxury hotels, S...

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Oct. 23, 2024

Throwback to Our Most Listened Episode of 2024 – Building a Hospitali…

In this special re-air of one of our most popular episodes, Alex & Annie revisit our insightful conversation with Tom Goodwin, CEO of Mountain Laurel Chalets. Tom’s remarkable journey in the vacation rental industry, from une...

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July 10, 2024

We’re Going to Italy! Meet the Team from Scale Italia

Get your Scale Italia 2024 tickets here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/scalerentalsitalia/1074426 Exclusive offer for Alex & Annie listeners: Get $400 off your onboarding fee when you partner with Hostaway using this li...

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Jan. 31, 2024

Executive Spotlight: MMGY Global CEO Katie Briscoe Shares Insights fr…

In this insightful episode of "Alex and Annie, The Real Women of Vacation Rentals," we had the pleasure of sitting down with Katie Briscoe, the CEO of MMGY Global. Katie, a seasoned destination marketing expert with a wealth ...

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Jan. 24, 2024

Building a Legacy of Hospitality: The Story of Mountain Laurel Chalet…

In this captivating episode of “Alex and Annie: The Real Women of Vacation Rentals, we sit down with Tom Goodwin, a seasoned professional in the vacation rental industry, to explore his remarkable journey and the transformati...

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Nov. 8, 2023

Keeping Wall Street Dollars on Main Street, with David Angotti

In this episode, Alex and Annie are joined by David Angotti, the Chief Evangelist at Guesty, an end-to-end property management software designed for short-term property managers who seek to save time, increase revenue, and gr...

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June 28, 2023

From 0 to 100 Real Quick: Celebrating 100 Episodes of Alex & Annie Po…

In this very special anniversary episode, Alex & Annie are joined by Travis Wilburn and Rebecca Lombardo - Co-Founders of The 100 Collection. The 100 Collection is a prestigious evaluation program that recognizes exceptional ...

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June 7, 2023

Paid, Earned & Owned Media Strategies with Adam Stoker, CEO of Relic …

Join us for an insightful conversation with Adam Stoker, president and CEO of Relic Agency and guru in the world of tourism and destination marketing (DMO/CVBs/Chamber of Commerce). Discover how he stumbled into the tourism i...

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Feb. 1, 2023

1st of the Month Bonus Episode: We Are Not Airbnb… So What ARE We?

On today’s episode, we’re featuring our recent panel at DESTICON, a virtual conference that brought together tourism and hospitality professionals from the DMO (Destination marketing organization) space. In our session, we di...

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Jan. 25, 2023

Leading through Authenticity and Vulnerability, with Alex Zemianek CE…

THE KEY TO A GREAT TEAM IS AUTHENTICITY In today’s episode, Alex and Annie welcome Alex Zemianek, the Founder and CEO of JZ Vacation Rentals. He shares how trial after trial left him broke and almost broken. However, when he allowed himself to be vulnerable with his team, they rallied behind hi…

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July 27, 2022

What Every Marketer and DMO Should be Thinking About, with Stuart But…

We often talk about the importance of not building your marketing house on someone else’s land (Airbnb, Vrbo, Google etc), but in this episode we discuss how creative marketers are building their brands on their own channels....

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May 4, 2022

Creating a Sustainable Competitive Edge, with Ed St. Onge, President …

Tune in for Part 2 of our episode with Ed St. Onge, President of Flip.to and Founder of the first ever channel management software for hotels, EZ Yield. On last week's episode, Ed took us through the early days of channel and...

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April 13, 2022

How Rent Responsibly is Aligning Forces to Protect the STR Industry, …

Tune in for today's episode with David Krauss, CEO and Co-Founder of Rent Responsibly , the organization that has helped thousands of managers from coast to coast as they deal with the influx of short term rental laws that ar...

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March 2, 2022

How Vacation Rentals are Influencing Destination Marketing with Jenni…

On today's episode we are joined by Jennifer Barbee, CEO of Destination Innovate and a dynamic leader who has worked with over 400 hospitality and destination brands. She has been credited with many innovative firsts in the i...

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Feb. 1, 2022

It’s the 1st of the Month! Bonus Episode - February 2022

Wake up, wake up, wake up... it's the 1st of the Month! On this new bonus series, we'll look back on the previous month and look ahead to the next, examining booking trends, pacing and anything timely and newsworthy within tr...

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