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#31 - Michael Brown - CEO of Travel+Leisure Co. on Creating Strategies and Identifying New Trends in the Travel Industry


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Michael Brown is the CEO of Travel+Leisure Co. (NYSE: TNL),  the world’s leading membership and leisure travel company, with nearly 20 travel brands across its resort, travel club, and lifestyle portfolio. The company provides outstanding vacation experiences and travel inspiration to millions of owners, members, and subscribers every year through its products and services: Wyndham Destinations, the largest vacation ownership company with more than 245 vacation club resort locations across the globe. Travel + Leisure Co. has created a recent partnership with Sports Illustrated to create Sports Illustrated Resorts, in addition to their existing partnership with . Michael is a 1992 graduate of the UVA McIntire School of Commerce.

We spoke with Michael about:

  • How to define a company strategy
  • Cultivating innovation at Travel+Leisure
  • 2 trends in the hospitality industry in 2024
  • Intuition vs. data-driven decisions
  • Creating a company culture
  • Lessons out of Covid in the travel industry
  • Personality fit in companies
  • Much more

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