Conversations With the People Shaping What’s Next in Hospitality
Unfiltered conversations with leaders, builders and disruptors across hospitality, technology, investment and entrepreneurship.
Ideas, Experience and Unfiltered Perspectives
Conversations with hospitality leaders, founders and builders about the decisions, technologies and ideas shaping the industry.
AI Won’t Replace Strategy. It Will Expose Weak Thinkers.
Most companies do not have a strategy. They have content calendars, meetings, campaigns, and more tools than ever before. But in a world where everyone can publish, automate, and generate more content with AI, the real question becomes: who can still think clearly?
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What Hotel Owners See That Operators Don't.
A hotel can be fully booked and still be a bad investment. Most operators don't see it. Most owners don't say it. Until now.
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Mews PMS from Startup to $2.5B valuation
From two hotel guys with no tech skills to a $2.5 billion valuation. How do you reinvent an industry from the inside and what does it take to survive when no one will fund you?
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HXD212 goes beyond polished talking points to explore the decisions, ideas and experiences changing how hospitality is built, led and operated.
Hospitality
The changing expectations of guests, operators and owners, and what the next generation of hospitality could look like.
Technology
From AI and automation to hotel technology and new business models, we explore what actually matters beyond the hype.
Leadership
The decisions, failures and lessons behind building teams, companies and careers in a rapidly changing industry.
Disruption
Challenging established assumptions and examining the people, companies and ideas pushing hospitality in new directions.
Thibault Catala
Thibault Catala works at the intersection of hospitality, revenue strategy, technology and entrepreneurship.
Through HXD212, he sits down with the people building, challenging and reshaping the hospitality industry to explore what they have learned, what they believe is changing and what others can learn from their experience.
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Better Conversations. Better Commercial Decisions.
CATALA Consulting helps independent, boutique and luxury hotels improve revenue, profitability and commercial performance through outsourced revenue management, independent audits and senior strategic advisory.