Welcome back to the Boostie podcast. This is the podcast that gives host the tools, the tactics, the training and most importantly the confidence so you can go out there and get yourself some direct bookings.

I'm Liam Carolin and Mark Simpson's co-host and this is the Spotlight series on the Bootley

Podcast which really dives into services businesses people that you need to know

about as a hospitality owner. Today we're talking about AI we're talking about AI, we're talking about hospitality and we're talking about

our very special guests company called Journey.

So we've got Jason Lopez, he's the senior director and business development at our journey, and you can go and check them out at journey.com.

I'm going to let him introduce the business and let you know all the cool stuff that they do,

but this is all going to be one that you want to stick around for and I'm excited to dive into this because AI is one of the hot topics in hospitality at the moment and in the world. So welcome along Jason. Thank you for

joining me. Thank you, Liam. Happy to be here. Thanks so much for having me on.

So Jason, for those who haven't heard of journey, do you mind given an elevator pitch as to who you guys are and what problem you solve?

Yeah, absolutely. So Journey is the first AI powered property management software in the space for short-term rentals and vacation rentals.

So we were born actually as a management company ourselves six or seven years ago, like through a lot of heartache with some of the

tech in the space. We originally started out managing luxury villas, our

founder, Lou Gutt, managing luxury villas in LA,

spun that off into a management company

right around the same time as Lyrrhic and Sonder

and those companies.

Gruits without 350 units under management

and six different markets across the US and one of the biggest barriers to

Entry and the biggest barriers to scale was technology.

So that's really kind of how journey.

That's the journey on journey began.

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