Check-in Podcast by TMR

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Episodes

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Check-In is a new kind of travel podcast where the faces and names working in the industry give their take on the state of travel and tell their own personal stories about how they fell in love with travel and with the industry.

Episodes

Episode 4: Checking-in With Peter Yesawich and Travel’s Recovery

More than 12 months after COVID-19 came to North America, TMR’s Dan McCarthy sits down for a short chat with MMGY Co-Founder Peter Yesawich. In April 2020, during the onset of the pandemic, Peter spoke to TMR about COVID-19 and gave four predictions on how the crisis would impact travel and how the industry would ultimately recovery. Now, in the midst of that recovery, Peter and Dan revisit those predictions and talk about Peter’s career in travel. Aside from founding MMGY, Peter has appeared as...

May 18, 2021•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 3: Checking-in with Reginald Charlot and NYC

Perhaps no other city in the United States had been as adversely affected by COVID-19 as New York City. A New York post headline from the summer of 2020 said that “New York City is Dead Forever” because what the pandemic had done to the city. But that’s something that New York has heard before, and something that the city will, no doubt hear again. On this episode, TMR’s Dan McCarthy checks-in with Reginald Charlot, the managing director tourism market development with NYC & Company, the city’s ...

May 03, 2021•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 2: Checking-in with Scott Koepf

How can you put a global pandemic in perspective? It’s not an easy thing to do, but it’s something that became the task for Scott Koepf in March 2020. A week prior to COVID hitting North America, Scott, a senior vice president at Cruise Planners, underwent brain surgery, something that he expected to be his “big” event for his 2020. Little did he, or the rest of the world, know what kind of impact COVID would have. In this conversation, Scott reflects on his career in travel and how a backpackin...

Apr 19, 2021•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 1: Checking-in with Jennifer Wilson-Buttigieg

When you and your family have built careers, and a major luxury agency, in the travel industry, how do you react when the world is shut down and borders are closed seemingly overnight? In this conversation, Jennifer-Wilson Buttigieg, the co-president and owner of Valerie Wilson Travel in New York City, talks about her experience over the last 12 months and whether or not she ever felt the urge to get out of the industry, especially as business went down more than 90% during last year. Jennifer t...

Mar 31, 2021•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Introducing Check-In Podcast

In 2019, at the height of the industry’s surge pre-COVID, the travel industry accounted for $8.9 trillion in contribution to the world’s GDP annually (more than 10% of the global GDP), along with 330 million jobs, or 1 in 10 jobs around the world. Its impact touched all corners of the global economy, connecting people from all corners of the world with friends, family, colleagues, cities, and countries that they would otherwise have no connection to. While the industry could lose more than 100 m...

Mar 23, 2021•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast