Experience This! Travel Industry Insights and Opinions

By Bruce Rosard, Lori Timony, Christian Watts

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Produced and hosted by three travel industry veterans, Experience This! is a weekly show focused on In-Destination Experiences and how tech and trends are impacting this $280B segment of the world's largest industry (travel and tourism). Part podcast, part YouTube, part LinkedIn, Experience This! is designed for everyone in the sector including small one woman bands up to the largest attractions in the world and the tech, distribution and services companies that make up the industry ecosystem. Featuring Lori Timony, Go City, Christian Watts, Magpie and Bruce Rosard, Arival. Marketing provided by Von Mack Agency


Episode Date
Who owns the connected trip?
Jun 04, 2026
S4 E7 Travel Advisors, Experiences & the Future of Human Curation
May 27, 2026
The Optimist Edge with Mauricio Prieto
Apr 28, 2026
AI is rewriting the Tour Operator Playbook
Apr 15, 2026
S4 E5 She Shapes History: The Hidden Stories of The Women Who Built New York
Apr 01, 2026
S4 E3 Will Tour Operators stop buying software? Vibe Coding introduced!
Mar 05, 2026
S4 E2. The Party Economy meets the Experience Industry and Batch is leading the way
Feb 09, 2026
S4E1 Driving an 85% repeat rate and bringing a 40 year old Tour Business into the digital age
Jan 22, 2026
S3 E 15 Keyguides Connect - redefining the hunt for the perfect Tour Guide
Jan 06, 2026
S3 E 14 Peek raises $70M and acquires ACME Ticketing and Connect & GO
Nov 25, 2025
S3 E13 James Lemon from Stripe talks Instant Checkout inside Chat GPT
Nov 23, 2025
S3 E 12 Rediscovering Groupon with Carrie Keplinger and Masha Sharma
Nov 02, 2025
AI Search with Scrunch.ai
Nov 02, 2025
Season 3. Episode 9 - Murray Decker
Aug 12, 2025
Season 3. Episode 6 - Chris Andrew, Scrunch AI
Mar 30, 2025
Season 3. Episode 5 - Jessie Fischer - GuestOS
Mar 06, 2025
Greg Fisher, Founder and CEO of Wave Rez and Tripshock introduces his new book "Mastering OTA's."
Feb 26, 2025
Episode 52 - The Hosts Discuss (Argue?) About the Potential Disintermediation of OTAs
Jan 19, 2025
Season 3. - Episode 2: TikTok About To Go Dark / AI Update
Jan 18, 2025
Season 3. E1 - The Hosts Make their Predictions for 2025
Jan 15, 2025
Season 2 - The Final Episode. 2024 in Review
Dec 31, 2024
S2, E 21 Meet Justin Buzzi
Dec 05, 2024
S2, Ep #20 Patricia Yates, CEO of Visit Britain/ Visit England
Nov 10, 2024
S2 E.19. Erika De Santi of We Road
Oct 27, 2024
Show #48 - Andy Moss, Mindtrip
Sep 25, 2024
Show #47 featuring The Godfather of Tours & Activities - Rod Cuthbert, founder, Viator
Sep 14, 2024
S2 Episode 14 Dan Christian of Travel Trends Podcast talks Multi Day Tours
Aug 15, 2024
Pete Comeau of Phocuswright joins us for a chat
Jul 11, 2024
Show #42: The Experience Economy, It's About Time Well Spent
Jun 06, 2024
What's up with Airbnb Experiences?
May 25, 2024
New Growth Strategies featuring Sarah Dines, Chief Commercial Officer, Viator
May 24, 2024
Experience This! Show #39, Season 2, Show #9: The Future of Search
Apr 30, 2024
Building Women Entrepreneurs in the Travel and Tourism Industry
Apr 25, 2024
Season 2, Show 6: Weekend Update!
Feb 24, 2024
Season 2, Show 4: Innovation (or lack of) in the Travel Industry
Feb 24, 2024
Season 2, Show 5: Distribution and Trade Shows
Feb 24, 2024
Season 2, Show #3: Christian's Top 6 Gen AI Topics entering "Year 2"
Jan 21, 2024
Season 2, Show #2 - A Mini Masterclass in Brand Marketing with Catherine Warrilow
Jan 15, 2024
Season 2, Show #1: Bruce's Top Ten Trends
Jan 13, 2024
Show #30 - AI in Experiences, AI tour guides OR Human Tour guides. OR a hybrid approach.
Nov 29, 2023
Meet Claus Raasted, the founder of The College of Extraordinary Experiences
Oct 19, 2023
What's next in the world of experiences and what is an experience anyway?
Sep 29, 2023
Show #26 - Focus on Startups
Sep 21, 2023
Show #25 - Trip Planners - Chances of Success?
Aug 04, 2023
Show #24 - The Experience Economy
Jul 28, 2023
Show #23 - Breaking News! Rezdy and Checkront Merge
Jul 20, 2023
Show #21 - GetYouGuide raises another $194m - opinions from the industry
Jun 06, 2023
Show #19 - Dynamic and Variable Pricing - What's the Difference
May 20, 2023
Show #20 - Niche OTAs
May 20, 2023
Show #18 - Women in Travel Tech (part 2)
May 01, 2023
Show #17 - News of the Day
Apr 21, 2023
Show #16 - The New Funnel for Experiences - Content Creators
Apr 15, 2023
Show #15
Apr 08, 2023
Show #14 - Cautious optimism for 2023 / Google Things to do update / AI at Arival
Mar 26, 2023
Show #13 - The Rebirth of Alan Turing and What it Means for Experiences
Mar 20, 2023
Episode #12 - Women in Experiences
Feb 24, 2023
Show #10 - Social Platforms & Influencers
Feb 09, 2023
Episide #9 - News Update and ChatGPT Pitch Show Info
Feb 02, 2023
Show #8 - Immersive Experiences
Jan 25, 2023
Episode #7 - The latest from APAC. China opens, Tech, Loyalty & more
Jan 19, 2023
Show #6 - Experiences Industry News Update
Jan 12, 2023
Show #5 - Talking about Groups
Jan 05, 2023
Show #4 - The most widely read articles on arival.travel in 2022, Passion Travel, more
Dec 28, 2022
Show #3 - Top 10 Trends: 2022 ----- > 2023
Dec 23, 2022
Show #2 - The End of GetYourGuide Originals (for now!)
Dec 14, 2022
Show #1 - The Pilot
Dec 08, 2022