The Stanza

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Booking Overview

This interview-led hospitality and culture podcast features senior external guests from luxury hotel groups, travel businesses, hotel development platforms, and hospitality technology companies. PR agencies could credibly pitch hotel CEOs, luxury travel executives, developers, investors, hospitality founders, and brand strategists with substantial portfolios or demonstrated influence; booking difficulty is high because recent guests occupy prominent industry leadership positions.

Metrics

Episodes: 14

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.4/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Instagram: 149.0k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Nadine (last name not provided in provided data) - Host/interviewer for The Stanza. Leads conversations focused on how hospitality operators translate culture and emotional storytelling into ultra-luxury guest experiences and durable business models.

Erina Pindar - COO of SmartFlyer, a luxury travel advisor platform emphasizing curation and highly personalized experiences for high-net-worth travelers. Regularly provides industry framing on luxury travel deman...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
CEOs, founders, chief strategy officers, and senior executives leading luxury hotel groups, hotel development and investment platforms, travel companies, hospitality technology firms, or premium guest-experience businesses.
Required Achievements:  
Leading major luxury hospitality or travel brands, Building or managing substantial hotel development and investment portfolios, Executing landmark property acquisitions, restorations, or brand expansions, Holding senior leadership roles at globally recognized hospitality companies, Developing distinctive hospitality technology, travel, or guest-experience platforms

Recent Guest Discussions

Gilda Perez-Alvarado - Luxury Hospitality Brand Expansion, Hotel, Train, And Yacht Development, Joint Ventures, Heritage Brands, Scarcity, And Multi-modal Travel.

Marc Lotenberg - Private Members' Club Technology, First-party Data, Personalization, Hospitality Infrastructure, And Membership Strategy.

David Zisser - Luxury Hotel Development, Institutional Capital, Acquisitions, Brand Selection, Hotel Investment, And Proprietary Brand Creation.

Tommaso Pacini - Luxury Hotel Guest Experience, Sensory Branding, Amenities, Custom Product Programs, And Emotional Memory.

Anne-Laure Ollagnon - Ultra-luxury Hospitality, Heritage Hotel Restoration, Family Office Versus Institutional Capital, Direct Ownership, And Brand Experience.

Recent Topics

Hospitality, Luxury Hotels, Hotel Development, Hotel Investment, Luxury Travel

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Stanza
:

Heritage at Scale: Building the Orient Express Universe Across Trains, Yachts, and Hotels with Gilda Perez-Alvarado, CEO Orient Express

July 09, 2026

Part I: The Operating System for Culture with Marc Lotenberg, founder of DorsiaDorsia is building the operating system for private members' clubs: a first-party, end-to-end technology platform designed to replace the legacy software and disconnected third-party integrations that most clubs still run on today. Marc Lotenberg, founder of Dorsia, argues that the gap between what the most discerning members expect and what the average club can actually deliver comes down to a failure of infra...

The Developer's Playbook: Building a €3B European Lifestyle & Luxury Hotel Portfolio with David Zisser

June 16, 2026

Part I: The Architecture of the Guest ExperienceLa Bottega Collective designs and produces the physical and sensory touchpoints of the luxury hotel stay, from bathroom formulations and textiles to amenities, gifting, and retail, working with 15,000 properties across 117 countries, from the world's most recognized hotel groups such as Aman and Four Seasons, to the finest independent properties such as Passalacqua and Il San Pietro di Positano. Tommaso Pacini, CEO of La Bottega Collective, ...

The Art of Emotional Storytelling: How Airelles Builds Ultra-Luxury Around History & Generosity with Anne-Laure Ollagnon

May 06, 2026

Part I: The Travel Advisor as Curator(00:00:27)Erina Pindar, COO of SmartFlyer, argues that the travel advisor’s core product is less about access but more so curation and personalization: the construction of high-emotional-impact moments that exist outside the algorithm and cannot be replicated through self-booking.In Part I of this episode, Erina walks through how SmartFlyer conceptualizes experiences designed to generate genuine surprise for HNW clients, why safari travel has seen a measur...

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