Hotel business talk with the hallway energy intact.
No Vacancy Live! is a loose, high-energy hospitality show built around practical hotel conversations. It moves from energy rebates and revenue systems to conference-floor interviews, student competitions, ownership stories, and Friday-night banter without sanding off the industry messiness.
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No Vacancy Live! is a hospitality-business show that keeps one foot in practical operations and the other in loose industry hangout mode. It has the feel of people talking between sessions at a conference, except the microphones stay on. Glenn often steers the room with quick questions, jokes, and plain-language restatements when a topic gets technical. The conversations are built for hotel people who care about how deals, systems, brands, and buildings actually work. Recent episodes move from energy-demand programs to revenue technology, public-private financing, hotel partnerships, student competitions, and dual-brand ownership. The energy episode is typical of the show at its best. Rick West and Kenny Westin explain rebates, kilowatt-hour savings, demand charges, and why utilities may pay hotels to reduce strain on the grid. Glenn keeps stopping the technical talk to translate it back into hotel-bill logic. The Perform segment shifts to performance management, connecting revenue and profit as one operating model rather than two separate conversations. Other episodes come from AHOAcon 2026, where the show picks up stories about a collegiate hotel-management simulation and a Red Roof owner running two adjacent properties on one lot. The public-private financing episode brings in Walter Waziski to explain how public-private partnerships work. Friday Night Audit is looser. Craig Sullivan, Suzanne Bagnaro, Arnie Garfinkel, and others riff through hospitality news, personal stories, opera, Disney service details, travel, and running jokes. Those episodes can wander, but the wandering is part of the texture. The show trusts the audience to follow along without a clean classroom setup. It is not afraid of interruptions, callbacks, sponsor breaks, or sudden turns. Underneath the banter, the recurring question is simple: what actually helps a hotel business work better? No Vacancy Live! is best for listeners who like industry specificity with personality still attached. It makes the business of hotels sound busy, social, technical, and very human.
Made for: Built for hotel owners, hoteliers, technology partners, educators, and hospitality insiders who want practical business talk without a sterile trade-show tone. It also suits listeners curious about how hotel deals, technology, partnerships, and operations get discussed by people inside the industry.
What sets it apart: No Vacancy Live! mixes trade-level hotel detail with live banter, conference-floor interviews, and recurring personalities. It stands out by making technical topics like demand charges, profit models, and public-private financing sound like conversations between colleagues rather than formal presentations.
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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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