Tony Loeb

📌 Hospitable launched iCal Imports to sync bookings from various OTAs and niche platforms, complementing integrations with Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Agoda, and Google Vacation Rentals. iCal Imports automates syncing for Expedia, Furnished Finder, Tripadvisor, and more, updating reservations hourly to prevent double bookings and leveraging Hospitable’s automation and AI tools for messages and guest inquiries. Hospitable, founded in 2016, helps hosts avoid excess work and scale their business by automating 90% of guest communication and managing bookings across channels. CEO Pierre-Camille Hamana emphasizes the ease of expanding reach without added stress.

📱 Hospitable, a vacation rental management platform, has launched iCal Imports, enabling hosts to sync bookings from various online travel agencies and niche platforms, including Expedia, Tripadvisor, and regional marketplaces. The new feature, extending past integrations with Airbnb, Vrbo, and others, aims to ease the management of listings across multiple channels. Automatic hourly imports into Hospitable's platform reduce double booking risks and streamline operations. CEO Pierre-Camille Hamana highlights the benefit of expanding reach without added stress. Since 2016, Hospitable has helped hosts automate messaging and operations, handling 90% of guest interactions with AI.

🏨 Hospitable, a vacation rental management platform, launched iCal Imports, allowing hosts to sync bookings from various OTAs and niche platforms. This feature complements existing integrations with major platforms such as Airbnb, Vrbo, and others. It supports automatic hourly syncing, aiming to prevent double bookings and help hosts manage multiple listings easily. The platform, founded in 2016, uses AI to automate messaging and manage reservations, aiming to handle 90% of guest interactions and streamline operations for hosts.

🏠 Hospitable's new iCal Imports feature allows hosts to sync bookings from multiple online travel agencies and niche platforms, expanding beyond direct integrations with Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Agoda, and Google Vacation Rentals. This tool automates syncing with OTAs like Expedia and regional marketplaces, centralizes operations, and helps maximize occupancy by importing reservations every hour. Founded in 2016, Hospitable automates 90% of guest messages with AI and ensures a synchronized calendar to prevent double bookings. CEO Pierre-Camille Hamana emphasizes the ease of scaling business without added stress.

🏠 Hospitable, a vacation rental management platform, launched iCal Imports, enabling hosts and property managers to sync bookings from various OTAs, including Expedia, Furnished Finder, Tripadvisor, and others. This new feature integrates with Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Agoda, and Google Vacation Rentals, aiming to centralize operations and prevent double bookings by auto-importing reservations every hour. Hospitable, established in 2016, also offers automated messaging, team notifications, and a synchronized calendar to aid hosts in managing their properties efficiently.

📝 Frits van Paasschen, at age 46, joined Starwood as CEO, bringing a diverse background from consulting, Disney, and Nike. His first hospitality experience was at age 9 in Innsbruck at a B&B, which he recalls as the epitome of genuine hospitality. Van Paasschen values hospitality's spectrum, encompassing creativity, real estate analytics, technology, and human aspects. He emphasizes the importance of mentorship, having learned from various leaders such as Bob Dvorak's analytical communication, Bo Boyd's congenial style, and Tom Clark's brand and marketing intuition. Frits now focuses on mentoring, being a conscientious board member, and contributing to social and environmental responsibility. He advises approaching career opportunities for growth and capability expansion, leading him from strategic planning at Nike to CEO of Coors and fostering potential in others at Starwood.