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On show #14 we had two guest stars, Alexi Tabrizi, Senior VP Global Sales, Big Bus; and Tina Kyriakis, found and CEO, Alternative Athens join us to talk about their experience talking to 100s of people at Arival and ITB. We talked about where  the Experiences industry is right now, hint: "Cautious Optimism" , the ever changing but must use Google Things to do, and the extraordinary keynote and follow up breakout session by Marc Mekki including a dramatic case study featuring the AI version of Alan Turing. 

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Host Christian Watts and Marc Mekki, "Innovation & Design Thinking Speaker" who presented the keynote at Arival 360 Berlin that everyone is talking about. During Arival, Marc brought Alan Touring to life in a remarkable display of using Generative AI. He gave himself a challenge (and showed how he accomplished it) to create a tour company in less than 4 hours with less than 100 euros. 

Christian and Marc get the conversation going on the impacts of AI on the Experiences industry that we can't even begin to comprehend.

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Women In Experiences - climbing up the ladder, challenges along the way, gender pay gap. Dominique Sidley from Merlin, Judy Gauthier from Go City and Natalie Hernandez from Xplorie join Lori, Bruce and Christian to discuss the state of Women In the Destination Experiences industry leadership today.

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We are joined in this show by Marica Mackenroth Brewster, founder & CEO, Von Mack Agency. We talk about the "Trip Hacks experiment" , YouTube, Tiktok, Instagram, new influencer platforms, MrBeast and more.

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Our hosts Lori, Christian and Bruce talk about Destination Experiences news, investments and upcoming events.

Introducing a ChatGPT Pitch session, live streamed on LinkedIn on Wednesday February 15 at 12:00pm EST. This pitch session is for innovative, future ideas that have not been developed yet. What would you build if you had $150K and needed a product ready for market by June 1 2023?

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This is a great episode featuring Vince Kadlubek, co-founder, former CEO and visionary, Meow Wolf; and Ana Araque, co-founder, Imagine Experiences and a 30 year veteran of the travel industry.

Highlights of the show include super interesting answers to "what's an immersive experience"? Ana talking about Imagine Experience's James Bond and other experiences featuring live entertainers.

My personal highlight was listening to Vince talk about Immersive Experiences, leading to our discussion about Passion Travel (a concept we discussed with Dan Christian from Dharma on show #3), and then to Transformational Travel.

Great show Christian, Ana and Vince, thanks!

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This show starts to scrape the surface of what to expect in APAC as China begins to re-open to inbound and outbound travel. We feature three experts, Baidi Li of Go City, Hannah Pearson of Pear Andersen and CC Chan of Global Tix to chat about the latest from APAC including Tech, Loyalty programs, when will China business really return and what will they expect when it does.

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Co-hosts Lori Timony, Christian Watts and Bruce Rosard discuss the latest news happenings in the Experiences sector. China's re-opening, India, Corporate Event Experiences, NFTs and more.

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Show #5 covers an often overlooked opportunity in the Experiences Industry - Group Sales. Instead of chasing individual sales withe high acquisition costs, groups represent "old school" distribution and a great way to build a base of business. Hear from two experts discussing their views on this critical channel for success, Joe Martin, Uplevel Tourism and Fabio Monteiro, SUMMIT One Vanderbilt

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This show features Janelle Visser, editor for Arival reviewing the most read articles on arival.travel in 2022. We are also joined by Dan Christian from Dharma who discusses the passion economy and how it is fueled by content creators and influencers. Next the conversation jumps into OTA's and distribution, and women in travel tech.

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In this episode we discuss the Top 10 trends in the Experiences Sector - looking back to Bruce's predictions in 2022 and forward to 2023. Guests Carlee Stellfox Loya, Robin Harnish,  and Dan Flores join the discussion.

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Co-hosts Lori, Christian and Bruce are joined by Stephen Oddo, President of Walks and Devour Tours and Jose Arozarena, founder & CEO, Amigo Tours to talk about GetYourGuide's decision to end its Originals program.

Program Note: On March 6, 2023 at the Arival 360 Berlin event, GetYourGuide announced that Originals is back in a modified version (which is consistent with what they said when they decided to end the program in Q4 2022.) Stay tuned for an update with Experience This! and more special guests.

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Co-hosts Lori Timony, Christian Watts and Bruce Rosard introduce the Experience This! Show. 
What is it? Why is it? How is it?

Including brief introductions and a conversation about ChatGPT in the experiences sector of the travel industry.

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