Automation in the Hospitality Industry: Friend or Foe?
The Boostly Podcast
Mark Simpson
5.0 • 302 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Let's start to set this scene. So we're talking about competitive advantage. What even is competitive advantage? |
| 0:05.2 | The rest of maybe you could you could take this one. Yeah, sure. I mean, I think competitive advantage |
| 0:09.9 | probably means sometimes different things to different people. But from my point of view, |
| 0:14.4 | coming from a PMS property management system, booking management system, whatever you want to call us, |
| 0:20.7 | for me, the crux of competitive advantage is really a business is USPs. What do you love? |
| 0:27.0 | What are you greater at? And then how do you talk about those to the outside world? |
| 0:32.0 | But also the competitive advantage comes from making sure that your tech, your tools and people |
| 0:38.9 | all support and translate those USPs. Because if they're just USPs hanging in satellites and not, |
| 0:46.7 | you know, you don't have an integrated approach to the business, then, you know, you're not necessarily |
| 0:51.5 | going to succeed. It's really about shouting about them, communicating them well and feeding them into |
| 0:56.9 | that guest experience. So that really in a nutshell is what I'm talking about. And you might |
| 1:02.0 | actually need an ecosystem of tools and services to navigate those challenges and opportunities. |
| 1:06.8 | Because maybe no one system does everything for you. But the objective in mind is to give the |
| 1:12.2 | guest experience that lightest, easiest and most of unburdened approach to interacting with your |
| 1:18.4 | business. Mark, have you got a different perspective? |
| 1:20.9 | No, it's exactly that. Well, the necessary thing is it's everything boils down to hospitality. |
| 1:27.6 | At the end of the day, what we're doing doesn't matter whether you have come into this as something |
| 1:32.6 | passive and you want to find out more of this is like you've been you've come into this and this |
| 1:36.8 | is like your bread and butter. This is this is your creator's whole industry boils down to one |
| 1:40.6 | thing and that's hospitality. You know, you are welcome strangers into your house, into your |
| 1:44.3 | business and you are going to be creating memories. When somebody interacts with you and they pay |
| 1:51.0 | you compared to when they just buy some off, you know, an Etsy or wherever, is that you are creating |
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