Slate Money Travel: Hotels That Don’t Rip You Off
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This week, Pavia Rosati, founder of travel platform Fathom, chats with Felix Salmon and the hotel industry in the post-COVD era. They discuss why prices are so unpredictable, those exorbitant fees for coffee and yoga classes, and how the industry is recovering from a historic crash.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! |
| 0:02.0 | Welcome to Slate Money Travel, your guide this week to staying in hotels, which it turns out there's a lot to be said |
| 0:23.7 | about staying in hotels. I am not the person to say it, but I know the person who is Pavia |
| 0:29.8 | Rosati. Welcome. Felix, I am honored to be a guest on Slate Money talking about hotels. |
| 0:36.6 | But first, before you do that, introduce yourself. |
| 0:39.0 | Who are you? I'm Pavi Rizati. I am the founder of Fatham, which is an editorial travel platform |
| 0:44.6 | that covers the world through a mix of personal stories and curated guides, focusing on independent |
| 0:52.4 | and boutique and really special hotels, experiences, and places |
| 0:56.4 | all over the world. |
| 0:57.5 | And if you want to see what we're about, we are at fathomaway.com. |
| 1:02.2 | And before fathom, you actually worked at Slate? |
| 1:05.7 | I mean, for 15 minutes when the internet was a baby, but yeah, no. |
| 1:10.6 | In what, 1995? Yeah. It was brief and glorious. |
| 1:15.0 | I really liked it. The glory days. So we are going to talk about hotels and the economics of hotels and what has |
| 1:22.0 | happened to hotel prices, especially luxury hotels. We're going to talk about what value consists in. |
| 1:29.1 | We're going to talk about whether there are any arbitragees. |
| 1:32.3 | We're going to talk about junk fees, just a whole bunch of glorious stuff. |
| 1:37.9 | And at the end of it all, you'll probably just be going to fathom to work out where to stay |
| 1:41.9 | because it turns out there's very little sort of one-size-fits-all rules when it comes to this industry, but it's a fascinating |
| 1:48.4 | thing to talk about. So that's all coming up on slate money travel. So, Pavia, you are the |
| 1:57.1 | best traveled person I know. That's nice of you. And you have a website which is all about |
| 2:02.9 | travel. And correct me if I'm wrong, but a massive part of how you think about travel and what |
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