Behind the Stays · 2026-08-07 · 1h 13m
Subscribe to This Week in Hospitality wherever you get you podcasts: Spotify - Podcasts - - This week we're joined by Sarah Kopit, Editor-in-Chief of Skift - the publication that fuels basically every episode of this show - and she came ready.We open on the story all of hospitality shared this week: Aman's brand-new, $6,000-a-night Amanvari turning away independent reviewer Ryan Walker at the gate on night two, then calling the cops on his driver. Scott and Sarah are inclined to give Aman the benefit of the doubt. Ben isn't - he thinks it might be the canary in the coal mine for a brand scaling faster than it ever has.From there we get into The Squeeze, Sarah's reporting on the crisis crushing America's small and mid-scale hotel owners. Record brand profits, owners barely cash-flowing, and a franchise model showing real cracks.
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