Travel industry voices from the inside.
Travel Massive Podcast is a trade-facing window into how travel businesses, creators, and communities respond to change. Recent episodes move between COVID-19 disruption, adventure operators, accessibility work, content creation, and travel technology.
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Travel Massive Podcast treats travel as an industry made by people, not just a set of places to visit. Its recent episodes collect live-show recordings, community productions, and founder interviews from across the Travel Massive network. Kevin from Cityhook and the Dublin Travel Massive team appears as a recurring guide through the live-show material. Rick Azarian leads a set of How I Built This conversations with travel entrepreneurs. The result is a show with a working-room feel. It listens to operators explain how their companies were built, where the gaps were, and what pressure looks like when the market changes. One thread follows adventure travel companies, including Large Minority and its rickshaw and tuk-tuk trips, and Untamed Borders with its focus on challenging locations named in the excerpts. Another thread looks at travel technology through EasyGuide and its B2B guide-booking solution. The live shows widen the frame. They include COVID-19-era check-ins, discussion of South Africa, aviation and hospitality references, and candid talk about businesses trying to rebuild themselves. The excerpts carry real strain around layoffs, teams, markets, and the question of whether the old travel playbook still works. There is also a community-production strand on accessibility in travel, centered on Hack Access and a conversation with Mark Lanahan. Content creation gets its own run, with Jean and Juliana Broste named in titles around travel bloggers, photographers, and panelists from different places. The tone is informal but trade-aware. It can be loose, live, and personable, then suddenly very practical about distribution, markets, and survival. This is not a polished brochure for travel dreams. It is a networked record of travel insiders comparing notes while the industry is being forced to adapt. For PlayNext, it belongs near travel-tech, founder story, creator economy, and industry-recovery listening.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants travel business context from operators, creators, chapter leaders, and community members rather than destination tips alone. It also fits people tracking how travel companies respond to disruption, accessibility, creator work, and marketplace gaps.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its community-network format: live Travel Massive conversations sit beside founder interviews and community productions. That gives it a wider industry texture than a single-host travel business interview feed.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A community-built snapshot of 101 travel projects surfaced on Travel Massive in 2023.
This Travel Massive special edition covers 101 new projects surfaced on the platform in 2023 and sorts them into roughly 12 buckets, from accessible travel and nomad tools to AI trip planning, mapping, micronations, and impact travel.
Travel tech sales, focused on the tradeoffs that decide what gets built and sold.
This conversation makes a clear case that selling travel technology comes down to structure as much as ideas. The strongest stretches focus on what stays standard, what can bend, and how platform boundaries shape the path to value.
Donald Kelly interviews sales coaches and reps on LinkedIn prospecting, cold outreach, and sales mindset.
Stephen Dubner tests bourbon economics, Alzheimer's research, and money advice against hard data.
Daily business news with Kai Ryssdal, tracking Fed policy, oil shocks, and private credit.
Galloway rotates Office Hours Q&A, Raging Moderates politics, and China Decode geopolitics weekly.
Joel and Matt answer listener money questions weekly in the show's Ask HTM segments.
The Travel Massive podcast hosts discuss 101 innovative travel projects from 2023, covering 12 trends like accessible travel, digital nomad apps, and impact travel, with insights from guests Ian and Rick on standout startups and emerging themes.
This panel discussion from Dublin Travel Massive features industry experts exploring how to sell innovative travel technology ideas, focusing on building trust, adapting to post-COVID changes, and employing team-based strategies for complex enterprise sales.
An interview with James Wilcox of Untamed Borders about adventure travel to challenging destinations like Afghanistan and Somalia.
An interview with Julian Carnell, co-founder of Large Minority, about organizing rickshaw adventures and the impact of COVID-19 on his business.
A live panel discussion with travel insiders about content creation during isolation.
A live show connecting travel industry insiders, featuring expert discussions and inspiration for the travel community.
Interview with Marc Ruffet, co-founder of EasyGuide, a B2B marketplace for tour guides, discussing his entrepreneurial journey and challenges.
Travel industry insiders discuss a hackathon focused on accessibility and its impact on the travel business.
An interview with Jacob, founder of Taste of Thailand, discussing changes in the travel and food tour landscape over six years.
An interview with the head of growth of Travello, a travel social network, discussing its growth strategy and how it bucks trends.