We're back after two weeks off because of some travel schedule conflicts & being sick! In honor of Mental Health Awareness and some divine timing, we have Hector Hughes joining us as our special guest this week. Hector is Co-Founder of Unplugged, a hospitality company that is designed to allow busy city workers, startups, and anyone else in between to go on a relaxing getaway that is electronic free as all guests lock up their devices during their stay. Join us with your favorite cup of coffee (we have a new favorite one, by the way!) and let's all take a moment to see how we can unplug as well!

We're following the theme of remote work and "living anywhere". After having our friend Pat on the show last week to talk about the differences between working remote and digital nomad-ship, Airbnb came out with their new policy for employees to live and work anywhere while not making an impact on their income based on their location(s) through the year. Grab your coffee for this episode because we have a lot to cover in 30 minutes!

Spain and other countries are & have changed their laws to now allow digital nomads to stay in the country to work and live remotely! Tune in this week as we bring on a special guest who has been living this digital nomad life since 2015 while currently in Barbados, the first country that promoted a visa for digital nomads & remote workers.

Blockchain, Crypto, Metaverse, NFT's and DAO's... all words and things we never thought would be a reoccurring conversation in our industry are now not just buzzwords and we're going to dive into them today on Good Morning Hospitality.

What can come from Ubers "Mega Travel App"? Is this going to be the solution we've all been waiting for when it comes to seamless travel? Mentioned In This Episode: Startup of the Week - https://www.phocuswire.com/Civitatis-Vitruvian-Partners-investment Whats With The Noise?!? - https://www-bloomberglinea-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bloomberglinea.com/2022/04/04/mexican-casai-acquires-brazilian-startup-loopkey-to-grow-solution-for-real-estate-partners/?outputType=amp Main Topic Article - https://www.phocuswire.com/uber-goes-full-superapp-adds-planes-trains-and-hotels Any thing mentioned: Adam Harris on Slick Talk: https://hospitality.fm/show/episode/adam-harris-co-founder-of-cloudbeds/ Sounding Off Article by PhocusWire: https://www.phocuswire.com/sounding-off-156-uber-super-app

Let's reset and introduce ourselves for a minute. We're three hospitality professionals that love the industry as a whole. Hotels, Vacation Rentals or Short-term rentals, F&B, Tech, and Airlines. You name it, we most likely cover it! Good Morning Hospitality is a weekly morning show were we dive into these different segments and discuss VC capital funding, SPACS, Operations, and the different business models behind these businesses covered in industry news. Now, we'd like to introduce our guest this week who is not someone to go unnoticed and unseen. Brandy Canaley is the COO of a brand called Sextant Stays. Based in Miami with properties in Miami + New Orleans (and growing) we're going to cover the wide range of topics with Brandy on the behind the scenes from growing this brand to what it is and what it's going to be in the future. Brandy is a good friend of mine (Wil) now after getting to meet at VRMA International in 2021 and any opportunity I get to chat with her, I take it because she knows what it takes to really standout.

Everyone is going or has gone public it feels like and so we're reporting on where they started and where they're at now! Started from the bottom and now, we're here!

With so many tech solutions out there within the global industry of hospitality, we're covering this topic on the side of... we're still really early when it comes to making hospitality operations seamless for the operator and for the travelers. So, what does this look like in the future to come?

This week, we sit down with Will Parry who is co-founder and CEO of ALTIDO, a short-term management company based in Europe that was just recently acquired by DoveVivo, a co-living company. Tune in this week as we cover the story and acquisition vision behind this big move in the industry!