116 – TMG Hospitality Trailblazers: Mauri Berry

Suite Spot: A Hotel Marketing Podcast

Podcast host Ryan Embree welcomes the newest addition to the TMG Hospitality Trailblazers series, Mauri Berry, Vice President of Marketing & Digital Strategy at Remington Hospitality! During this episode, listeners can expect to learn a plethora of valuable and exciting insights and takeaways that encompass current trends in the hotel industry, such as technology advancement, effective digital touchpoints for guests, and hotel rebranding. Suite Spot Podcast · 116 - TMG Hospitality Trailblazers: Mauri Berry Episode Transcript Our podcast is produced as an audio resource. Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and human editing and may contain errors. Before republishing quotes, we ask that you reference the audio. Ryan Embree: Welcome to Suite Spot, where hoteliers check-in and we check out what's trending in hotel marketing. I'm your host, Ryan Embree. Hello everybody, and welcome to another episode of the Suite Spot. This is Travel Media Group Marketing Director and host of the Suite Spot, Ryan Embree. Thank you so much for joining us today. We are continuing our TMG Hospitality Trailblazer series. We're heating up a very, very busy summer season, but I am very excited about our guest because she's got some exciting news about a chapter for definitely a hospitality trailblazer management company out there, Remington Hospitality. So, without further ado, I will go ahead and bring in Mauri Berry, Vice President of Marketing and Digital Strategy at Remington Hospitality. Welcome to the Suite Spot, Mauri, this is your first time. Mauri Berry: Yeah, thanks Ryan. So happy to be here. I'm honored to have been invited and talk a little bit more about what we've got going on. Ryan Embree: Yeah, certainly have a lot going on, but we always like to start these episodes, just because our industry is so unique in the sense of, you know, some people find hospitality just through maybe a side job or gig here and there. Some people were born into it, some people went to school for it now, we're seeing that more and more often. So with every new guest we kind of like to ask your hospitality journey and tell us a little bit about your background. What led your hospitality path to Remington. Mauri Berry: Yeah, sure. So I've been around longer than I care to admit, primarily in our industry from even before I graduated from college. You know, I've been around for a while. My background, I started in PR as a PR major straight out of college and worked for a major attraction in Atlanta. And then sort of over the course of the years evolved and adapt my career all within the hospitality space. You know, I've worked in agency environments in PR and integrated marketing for hospitality and tourism companies. I've worked at Lakeside Resorts, I worked for Marriott where I spent most of my career is in field marketing at Marriott International for about 14 years. So, have really, like I said, been around longer than I care to admit. I did leave Marriott after almost 14 years and went to a hotel management company. I knew that in order to really grow and expand my career, I needed to maybe step outside of the Marriott bubble, expand my horizons a bit into other brands, other hotel types, other ways of doing business. So jumped into hotel management space and have never looked back. I've been, as you mentioned, with Remington Hospitality for about two years and you know, it's been nonstop adventure from day one with a number of different updates and corporate and company pivots and new exciting updates. So, you know, I don't see myself going anywhere for a while, if the excitement continues the way it has since I've been here. Ryan Embree: Yeah, certainly a lot of exciting things to share, some of which we're gonna talk about on this episode a little bit later, but it's just so fascinating to hear. I love in this Hospitality Trailblazer series kind of hearing where people jump from,