GMH Turns 5: Amex Travel Boom, United’s AI Cuts, Airbnb’s Political Push
Good Morning Hospitality
10/20/25
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Michael Goldin, Brandreth Canaley, and Wil Slickers celebrate five years of Good Morning Hospitality by diving into this week’s biggest industry stories — from American Express Travel’s record bookings and Capital One’s new 5x points on short-term rentals, to United Airlines cutting 4% of management roles due to AI, and Airbnb launching a political organization in Arizona.
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GMH Hotels: Loyalty Rankings, Squatter Fears, and Rebuilding Reefs
October 15, 2025
•34m
Join Steve Turk and guest-host Katie Cline as they dive into this week’s biggest stories in the world of travel. They’ll unpack the latest hotel loyalty rankings and what they mean for loyalty programs, a brewing squatter scare for short-term rental hosts in France, and evolving rules for travel to Europe. Then, they’ll explore Delta Air Lines' strategic push toward affluent travelers via their American Express partnership and finally, how hotels are reimagining resorts as coral restoration labs in the face of climate stress on reefs.
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GMH Hotels: Luxury Takes Private, Cloud Cracks, & Waymo for Business
October 22, 2025
•31m
On this week’s episode of GMH Hotels, Sarah Dandashy and Steve Turk unpack five major developments reshaping the hospitality and travel ecosystem.
First, the luxury-hotelier Mandarin Oriental Oriental is being taken private in a deal valued at $4.2 billion. Then they examine the ripple effects of a major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that disrupted travel operators and highlighted infrastructure fragility.
Waymo enters the business-travel arena with its new “Waymo for Business” robotaxi program aimed at corporate clients. They also dive into the cheeky marketing strategy of Ryanair—from tanks to TikTok—and how travel brands are waging attention wars.
Finally, they explore how host cities for the FIFA World Cup 2026TM - Canada, Mexico and the United States are raising hotel taxes ahead of 2026 and what that pressure motion looks like for hotel operators.
Sarah and Steve provide a full-spectrum briefing on what hotel leaders need to watch right now and how to stay ahead of the curve!
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