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Creating Memories - Jennifer Barnwell - Episode # 053

Creating Memories - Jennifer Barnwell - Episode # 053

Episode 53 Published 4 years ago
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Jennifer Barnwell is the President of Curator Hotel & Resort Collection. She can see through the maze of real estate economics and is passionate about hospitality. She is also a member of and also on the Board of Advisors at the Boutique Lifestyle Leaders Association. Jen joins host Dan Ryan to talk her journey in #hospitality and what it all means to her.


Takeaways: 

 

  • You want to surprise and delight your guests. You want to make them feel welcomed and at home when they stay at your hotel.
  • Sometimes a switch in products or a switch in systems is something that can really help drive your bottom line. 
  • Make sure that your team is being used efficiently. You don’t want to overload them or put them on tasks that aren’t their strong suit.
  • Having the owner's finger on the pulse helps to make decisions and changes run smoother. 
  • Hospitality is about the experience. You want to peak the senses of your guest and make them feel interested and excited about where they are. 
  • You want to create memories for your guests and have them be positive and something they can take with them when they leave the hotel. 
  • Independent hotels have the ability to connect to a place in a very powerful way. It feels authentic and natural. 


Quote of the Show:

 

22:12 “For me, it's all about the experience. I step inside, how does it make me feel, what catches my eye, what do I see? That's interesting. What kind of peaks my curiosity, what about all my senses? That's how I tend to define it, because that is what is memorable to me.”


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Shout Outs:

 

0:48 Pebblebrook

0:50 CapEx

1:09 Independent lodging Congress

8:49 Bill Kimpton

9:34 Sir Francis Drake in San Fransico 

28:16 Death & Company

28:17 Dave Kaplan

28:59 Bashar Wali

41:33 Cameron Sperance


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