Hello and welcome to the Bustle Podcast. We are now in season 7. We are in episode 20 and today is a very special one because we're actually discussing what book direct actually means. As you know the Boost Hospitality podcast is all

about me showing you ways on how you can increase your dire bookings but a lot of people

don't actually know what book direct means so I am going to be speaking at a big event

this year called the Book Direct Symposium in fact when you're watching this intro or listening to this

intro it will have happened only a few weeks ago. This has been recorded on the 6th of

February. This is the day after Book Direct Day.

It went down really well. So many hosts spread the message of Book Direct.

There was so many people that actually got direct bookings through the work and the preparation

that we did as part of the Bousley Academy.

If you want to find a more about the Bousley Academy,

then please do go and check out the Bousley website.

We have got the new enrollments open for just a few more days. So if you go to

boostly academy.com or boostly.co. UK.

slash academy there's going to be a little page for you to read testimonials how it works pricing and all of that jazz is going to be available there

So go check it out, but anyway the fifth of February really well and today I reached out to Steve Kapandi of the Book Direct Symposium.

Now Steve has been involved in the Tours and the Activities World for nearly 10 years.

From Australia he's a singer, a songwriter, he's done

loads of thing, he travels all over the world, he is a great guy and now what he's been doing

for the past six years is running symposiums, which is meetups for other tour operators in the cycling world and they do it in different cities each year now. This is the first year he wants to get hospitality involved. That's why he's reached out to me and

because it's about book direct because it's in Athens and I've never been to Athens before

and neither is my family and because he's a guy and a great guy who just asked me the

question do you want to speak?

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