Ep. 42 - RevPar Problems, Real Talk: When Memes Meet Metrics with Calvin Tilokee How do revenue managers really think? What makes hotel rates spike during Taylor Swift concerts—or Bigfoot conventions? And why do memes about ADR hit harder than your star report? In this episode of Tickets to Travel: The Business of Travel Experiences , we sit down with Calvin Tilokee of RevPAR Media, the sharp mind behind the viral @RevPARProblems Instagram account. Calvin pulls back the curtain on hotel pricing strategy, compression events, influencer marketing, and what event producers often get wrong when pitching to hotels. Whether you’re trying to block rooms for a major festival, fill your hotel over a soft week, or just want to understand the secret language of revenue managers, this episode is packed with insight and humor. This episode is a must-listen for hotel sales and revenue teams, meeting and event planners, festival promoters, and hospitality marketers. Follow @RevPARProblems on Instagram for daily hotel truths and satire. And subscribe now to hear why Calvin says: “We don’t need your group when we’re already full. Call us the week after Christmas.” For more insider conversations at the intersection of travel, ticketing, and live experiences, follow us on all socials @Tix2TravelPod and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. If you haven’t listened yet, head to www.tttpod.com to catch up on past episodes.…
The Giga Ten is a conversation between the author of the Giga Ten, Sebastian Manhart, and Leila Conners, Founder of Tree Media and director and producer of Legion 44. More on Sebastian Manhart: he is the world’s most followed carbon dioxide removal (CDR) expert, providing daily market & policy insights to >33,000 followers. He is the Senior Policy Advisor of Carbonfuture, the leading platform for high-quality CDR credits. Sebastian is also the Chair of the Board of the DVNE, the German CDR Association, as well as a founding Director of the US Biochar Coalition and the Enhanced Weathering Alliance. Sebastian also founded and runs CDRjobs, the sector’s leading job platform. Previously, Sebastian spent a decade as a tech entrepreneur, advised Angela Merkel´s Chancellery, and worked with governments globally through the World Bank. Sebastian is an economist with a BA from UCL and an MPhil from Cambridge University. Leila Conners founded Tree Media Group in August of 1996. With a background in international politics and economics, Leila set out to build a production company that creates media to support and sustain civil society by telling inspiring stories. Most recently, Leila produced and directed Legion 44 a film on innovation and also founded N2K Need to Know, an online channel that streams stories and solutions about the pressing issues of our time. Leila’s work with spans over 25 years of research and collaboration with scientists, institutions, governments both national and sub-national. Leila directed several films including The 11th Hour, a film that included 54 leading thinkers and scientists about the state of the world and the state of the human condition; Ice on Fire a film with HBO about methane, the arctic, the carbon cycle and how civilization can exist within the carbon cycle. Leila is collaborating and learning from innovators and is interested in community and locally inspired action. Previously, Leila directed The Arrow of Time with Mikhail Gorbachev and We the People 2.0 about nature and community rights. She created a documentary film on the explosion of urban farming in Detroit called Urban Roots. Leila has also been published in newspapers and magazines around the world including the International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Yomiuri Shimbun and Wired Magazine among others. Projects over the last 25 years with Tree Media Group include work with NASA, JPL, Harvard University, and studios among others.
The Giga Ten is a conversation between the author of the Giga Ten, Sebastian Manhart, and Leila Conners, Founder of Tree Media and director and producer of Legion 44. More on Sebastian Manhart: he is the world’s most followed carbon dioxide removal (CDR) expert, providing daily market & policy insights to >33,000 followers. He is the Senior Policy Advisor of Carbonfuture, the leading platform for high-quality CDR credits. Sebastian is also the Chair of the Board of the DVNE, the German CDR Association, as well as a founding Director of the US Biochar Coalition and the Enhanced Weathering Alliance. Sebastian also founded and runs CDRjobs, the sector’s leading job platform. Previously, Sebastian spent a decade as a tech entrepreneur, advised Angela Merkel´s Chancellery, and worked with governments globally through the World Bank. Sebastian is an economist with a BA from UCL and an MPhil from Cambridge University. Leila Conners founded Tree Media Group in August of 1996. With a background in international politics and economics, Leila set out to build a production company that creates media to support and sustain civil society by telling inspiring stories. Most recently, Leila produced and directed Legion 44 a film on innovation and also founded N2K Need to Know, an online channel that streams stories and solutions about the pressing issues of our time. Leila’s work with spans over 25 years of research and collaboration with scientists, institutions, governments both national and sub-national. Leila directed several films including The 11th Hour, a film that included 54 leading thinkers and scientists about the state of the world and the state of the human condition; Ice on Fire a film with HBO about methane, the arctic, the carbon cycle and how civilization can exist within the carbon cycle. Leila is collaborating and learning from innovators and is interested in community and locally inspired action. Previously, Leila directed The Arrow of Time with Mikhail Gorbachev and We the People 2.0 about nature and community rights. She created a documentary film on the explosion of urban farming in Detroit called Urban Roots. Leila has also been published in newspapers and magazines around the world including the International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Yomiuri Shimbun and Wired Magazine among others. Projects over the last 25 years with Tree Media Group include work with NASA, JPL, Harvard University, and studios among others.
In the 7th Episode of The Giga Ten, a discussion with Sebastian Manhart, we get into how *little* funding CDR gets if one considers the funds allocated to the whole green transition, even though many people assume otherwise. We get through other pressing topics, like the importance of keeping the EU-ETS tech neutral, SO important. Watch or listen to the next Giga Ten!…
In this 6th episode of The Giga Ten we discuss how Microsoft is a huge buyer of removals in the space, how Climeworks might want to respond to that Icelandic paper and other CDR policy mechanisms emerging from the EU. This and much more in the following episode with Sebastian Manhart and Leila Conners.…
In this 5th episode of The Giga Ten we discuss how Germany and Denmark are setting CDR benchmarks as well as standards. The Global South has a seat at the table and ERW and the carbon molecule is complex! This and much more in the following episode with Sebastian Manhart and Leila Conners. Thank you for listening! Relevant Links: https://tracker.carbongap.org/funding... legion44.world Sebstianmanhart.com treemedia.com…
Carbon Gap has launched a funding tracker for CDR in Europe which is mighty helpful given it is hard to find pockets of funding for this important innovation. In this 4th episode of The Giga Ten Sebastian Manhart and I discuss this as well as the need to grow CDR companies post pilot. The rest of the conversation covers policies that emerged recently and we end wondering about the new CDR project in Wyoming, Spiritus, that just received $30 million.…
Sebastian Manhart updates us on the CDR (carbon dioxide removal) industry in conversation with Leila Conners. The GigaTen is a newsletter that Sebastian posts monthly and Leila thought it would be an interesting conversation to update monthly as well. We think that CDR is important and a unifying pathway as it creates jobs, proposes new ways to manufacture materials and can remove CO2 as needed. Thank you for watching! Relevant Links for Episode 3: 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 (𝗔𝗖𝗥𝗔) https://www.acra-program.com/ Octavia Carbon https://octaviacarbon.com/ CDR.FYI https://www.cdr.fyi/ Puro Earth https://puro.earth/ Carbon Gap https://carbongap.org/ Sebastian Manhart http://www.sebastianmanhart.com Legion 44 http://www.legion44.world Tree Media http://www.treemedia.com Sign up to the GigaTen here: https://www.sebastianmanhart.com/news... Follow Sebastian on LinkedIn for daily CDR content: / sebastianmanhart To Watch Legion 44 + Remove CO2, go to: https://www.legion44.world/watchandremove Leila's films and work @ http://wwww.treemedia.com Follow Leila on LinkedIn: / leila-conners-7985aa1…
Sebastian Manhart updates us on the CDR (carbon dioxide removal) industry in conversation with Leila Conners. The GigaTen is a newsletter that Sebastian posts monthly and Leila thought it would be an interesting conversation to update monthly as well. We think that CDR is important and a unifying pathway as it creates jobs, proposes new ways to manufacture materials and can remove CO2 as needed. Thank you for listening! Relevant Links for Episode 2: http://www.cdr.fyi / roberthoglund http://www.carbonremovalalliance.org http://www.milkywire.com http://www.milkywire.com/impact-funds... http://www.puro.earth/blog/our-blog/i... http://www.carbonremovalstandards.org http://tracker.carbongap.org http://www.legion44.world Sign up to the GigaTen here: https://www.sebastianmanhart.com/news.. . And check out the December version (and all previous ones) here: https://www.sebastianmanhart.com/gigaten Follow Sebastian on LinkedIn for daily CDR content: / sebastianmanhart Leila's films and work @ http://wwww.treemedia.com Follow Leila on LinkedIn: / leila-conners-7985aa1…
Sebastian Manhart updates us on the CDR (carbon dioxide removal) industry in conversation with Leila Conners. The GigaTen is a newsletter that Sebastian posts monthly and Leila thought it would be an interesting conversation to update monthly as well. We think that CDR is important and a unifying pathway as it creates jobs, proposes new ways to manufacture materials and can remove CO2 as needed. **Technical note, Leila's computer decided to lose it's ability to charge and the disk spun so it interrupted the recording bit rate, hence it's blurry, apologies, it is fixed for future episodes. Thank you for listening! Relevant Links: http://www.cdrjobs.earth/ http://www.carbonfuture.earth/ http://www.evetamme.com/ http://rmi.org/state-cdr-atlas/ http://www.legion44.world http://www.treemedia.com http://www.n2k.world http://www.carbongap.org http://www.carbon180.org Sign up to the GigaTen here: https://www.sebastianmanhart.com/news... And check out the December version (and all previous ones) here: https://www.sebastianmanhart.com/gigaten Follow Sebastian on LinkedIn for daily CDR content: / sebastianmanhart Leila's films and work @ http://wwww.treemedia.com Follow Leila on LinkedIn:…
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