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Hosted by 🎥Calvin Tilokee · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 16 episodes
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Socially Awkward is the hotel marketing podcast for owners, GMs, and hospitality leaders who want marketing that actually drives business. Hosted by Calvin, the show brings together real hotel operations experience, revenue strategy, branding, social media, influencer marketing, and the ideas helping hotels stand out in a crowded market. Each episode features practical conversations on what works in hospitality marketing, how to connect marketing to ROI, and how hotels can turn attention into bookings. If you’re looking for sharper strategy, better storytelling, and smarter hotel marketing, you’re in the right place.
🎥Calvin Tilokee hosts The Socially Awkward Podcast | Strategic Marketing for the Hospitality Industry, a business show with 16 episodes published.
Hotel social media strategy for owners and GMs who want content that actually drives bookings starts with one question: why does this feature matter to my guest right now? Calvin Tilokee, host and founder at Revpar Media
Commercial strategy in hospitality only works when revenue, sales, marketing, distribution, and operations stop protecting departmental agendas and start operating from one shared goal. Dury Kim, SVP of Commercial Strate
Hotel revenue and marketing teams that operate in silos keep losing because neither side truly knows who their actual guest is. Calvin Tilokee, founder of Revpar Media and a former hotel revenue manager of 20 years, fixe
Hospitality leaders spend millions on marketing but still fail to deliver the experience the guest expected. The failure mode is treating the brand promise as separate from employee engagement, which means pouring money
What happens when vacation rental marketers stop fighting hotels and start fighting invisibility? In this episode of The Socially Awkward Podcast, host Calvin Tilokee sits down with Annie Holcombe and Alex O. Husner, co-
What happens when a hospitality marketing podcast stops being strategic for a minute and leans all the way into beautifully niche hotel chaos? In this episode of The Socially Awkward Podcast, Calvin Tilokee welcomes back
Why do so many hotel brands create content that looks polished, but still does not convert? In this episode of The Socially Awkward Podcast, Calvin Tilokee sits down with Susan Barry, founder of Hive Marketing and host o
Something has shifted in hotel marketing, and you can feel it. In a landscape where every property can publish polished visuals, aesthetics alone are no longer enough to stand out—or to convert attention into bookings. R
The hospitality industry is in the middle of a structural shift toward commercial leadership. Titles like “commercial leader” and “commercial strategy” have gone from buzzwords to necessities as hotels face tighter margi
In 2019, travel and tourism contributed a whopping 10.4% of global GDP — a figure that vanished almost overnight when the pandemic brought the world to a standstill. Today, the industry has clawed its way back to that sa
Sustainability is no longer optional in hospitality—it’s the expectation. A recent Booking.com report found that 84% of global travelers now prioritize making their trips more sustainable, raising the bar for hotels worl
The hospitality industry has weathered enormous shifts in the last five years, from pandemic‑era shutdowns to evolving guest expectations. Although hotels are projected to add over 14,000 employees in 2025, staffing leve
Influencer marketing is rapidly changing, and many hotels are still figuring out how to tap into its full potential. As travelers demand more authentic and relatable content, the pressure is on for hotels to adapt their
The hospitality industry is under mounting pressure to modernize to meet guest expectations for seamless, tech-driven experiences and also develop leaders who can drive that transformation. According to Rackspace Technol
As the hospitality industry emerges from years of pandemic-driven upheaval, leaders are iv As the hospitality industry emerges from years of pandemic-driven upheaval, hospitality leadership is evolving to meet new challe
Calvin Stovall
Executive Development | Dynamic Customer Experience / Leadership Keynote Speaker & Facilitator | Hospitality Historian /Author · Iconic Presentations
1 appearance on this show
Susan Barry
founder/CEO · GMA Foundations
2 appearances on this show
Scott Eddy
World Traveler, Business Owner, Entrepreneur, Stockbroker
1 appearance on this show
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