I apologize if this blog comes across as a bit of an advertisement, but I do think it's worth noting one more time this week that next week we're ramping up for the latest — the 15th! — iteration of the Hotel Data Conference.
It's honestly been fun to have a front-row seat to watch as my boss, Stephanie Ricca, has taken over content planning for the conference for the first time, and if effort is any indication, this is going to be the best HDC ever.
The show, which has been sold out for weeks now, will be held in the latter half of next week at the Grand Hyatt Nashville. It turns out our new venue hotel is the top-rated meetings hotel in the country, so I'm eager to see just how nice it actually is.
If you didn't get your seat at the show in time this year, I'm sorry to hear that. It's going to be fun.
If you did get to register before the cutoff, please do stop by my breakout session — which I completely objectively say has the best lineup of panelists at the entire show — on "Courageous Revenue Management."
You can also learn all about taking risks and making money, two things we all want to be better at.
The rest of it is all going to be great, as well. But my session will definitely be the best.
Let me know what you think on Twitter, LinkedIn or via email.
And before I go, let me squeeze in one more overt advertisement. Hotel News Now has put a lot of time and effort into building out what we've recently dubbed the Hotel News Now Podcast Network.
As of the past few weeks, that's now comprised of three separate feeds: The long-running Next Gen in Lodging podcast, a feed of Hotel News Now's executive interviews and conference coverage, and CoStar's Jan Freitag and STR's Isaac Collazo teaming up for Tell Me More: A Hospitality Data Podcast.
Please, please subscribe to all three — along with rating and reviewing — and I promise you'll be paid back in hotel news and insights. They're all available on Apple, Spotify, Google or anywhere else you listen to podcasts.
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