Travel Trends with Dan Christian Event Spotlight: Phocuswright 2025
We’re wrapping up our 2025 events spotlights with our biggest event episode ever, a 5+ hour special recorded live at Phocuswright San Diego. This landmark episode features 25 exclusive interviews with industry leaders shaping the future of travel, technology, distribution, and the in-destination experience.
This year’s Phocuswright was a standout event for Travel Trends, and we’re grateful to the entire Phocuswright team — especially Pete Comeau and Eugene Ko — for their partnership and support in making this recording possible so we can share these valuable insights with our global audience.
If you’d like to jump straight to the voices that matter most to you, scroll down — we’ve included timestamps for every amazing guest that Dan had the chance to sit down with.
Highlights & Timestamps
- 6m - Lorraine Sileo, Travel Insights, Research & Analysis, Phocuswright
- 31m46s - Jessie Fisher, Founder & CEO, GuestOS
- 42m59s - Marius Nigond, CEO iWander.io
- 51m39s - Ben Sann, CEO, TourOptima
- 1hr6m - Stephen Joyce, Global Strategy Lead - Travel & Tours, Protect Group
- 1hr23m - Lourdes Losada Frances, Director & Site Lead Americas, Skyscanner
- 1hr47m - Jo Lai, SVP AI Solutions & Customer Experience, Hopper
- 2hr - Dylan Conroy - Host of The Ad Podcast
- 2hr11m - Lauren Atlass - VP, Partnerships - Americas, HBX Group
- 2hr26m - Tim Qin, CEO, Roame
- 2hr31m - Charlotte Lamp Davies, Founder & CEO, A Bright Approach & Markus Stumpe, Founder & CEO, Alyza
- 2hr42m - Grant Palmer - Head of Enterprise Travel, Azira
- 2hr59m - Heather C. Dahl, Co-founder & CEO, Indicio
- 3hr17m - Elad Schaffer, Co-founder & CEO, Faye
- 3hr32m - Benjamin Manzi, COO, Maya AI
- 3hr47m - Rohit Khanna, Chief AI & Innovation Officer, ITbyus
- 3hr57m - Jen Barnwell, President, Curator Hotel & Resort Collection
- 4hr8m - Paul Lipson, CEO & Founder, Triprecos
- 4hr25m - Francesco Deledda, CEO, Yanolja Go Global
- 4hr36m - Layton Han, Co-founder & CEO, Bonafide
- 4hr54m - Mike Petrakis, Founder & CEO, Batch
- 5hr - Evan Tzeng, Founder, Hospitalities.AI
- 5hr12min - Noam Toister, CEO & Founder, Travelier
- 5hr22m - Jesus Ordoñez, General Director for the Board of Tourism of Baja California Sur
- 5hr32m - Jelani Millard, Head of Growth - North America, Maya AI
We hope you benefit from these valuable insights as you start 2026!
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