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Ryan Diggins on Becoming a Hotelier
Colorado property developer Ryan Diggins entered the hospitality world with a bang last year, opening the award-winning Ramble Hotel in Denver. Denver, Colorado, is booming. Cranes pierce the skyline—with its enviable Rocky Mountain backdrop—and the city’s cultural scene is undergoing a bona fide renaissance. One of the neighborhoods at the center of this activity...
Ryan Diggins on Becoming a Hotelierspherical
Danika Druttman on the Intersection of Art and Hospitality
How art programming in hotels engage guests with the community. With the rise of the boutique lifestyle hotel segment has come the rise of guest expectations. Danika Druttman, founder of Mira Muse, a bespoke arts and cultural programming company, is acutely aware that today’s travelers demand unique local experiences. Prior to Mira Muse, Druttman...
Danika Druttman on the Intersection of Art and Hospitalityspherical
Marika Frumes on Intentional Gatherings
How one hotelier sees opportunity in connecting people with purpose. To Marika Frumes, hospitality is all about connecting people in meaningful, unexpected ways. She’s spent the last decade specializing in brand partnerships and sales at Standard Hotels, but has used her spare time to organize what she calls “intentional gatherings” around the world, through...
Marika Frumes on Intentional Gatheringsspherical
Simone Fabricius on Travel, Connection, and Branding
How one global citizen’s experiences have shaped her outlook on branding and design. Danish-born designer Simone Fabricius has always loved drawing. From an early age, she recognized her passion for design, and after studying graphic design at the University of Copenhagen she moved to Paris to continue pursuing her career. After ten years of...
Simone Fabricius on Travel, Connection, and Brandingspherical
Tracy Komlos on Connecting Women with Wanderlust
How Pangea Dreams has fostered a community that provides opportunity for growth and female empowerment. So you want to be an influencer? Tracy Komlos can help. Her company, Pangea Dreams, has grown from a small production agency to a travel provider of its own, running educational retreats for women interested in travel content creation...
Tracy Komlos on Connecting Women with Wanderlustspherical
Adam Wallace on the Foundations and Future of Spherical
Spherical Founder and CEO speaks on his early beginnings and big projects on the horizon. Adam Wallace has been passionate about the hospitality industry since the beginning of his career, working at his family’s The Roger Smith Hotel in New York. It was there that he began exploring new ways for a hotel to...
Adam Wallace on the Foundations and Future of Sphericalspherical
Rolf Leer on Quoted Magazine, His Love Letter to New York City
How an aspiring YouTube star turned to print to showcase the real New York. Originally from Scandinavia, Rolf Leer moved to New York City in 2015, curious about what it meant to be a New Yorker. He was invited into people’s homes, camera in hand, to discover the nuances of big city life. With...
Rolf Leer on Quoted Magazine, His Love Letter to New York Cityspherical Communications
Ben Pundole’s New Mission to Make Hotels Green
How the EDITION Hotels VP’s initiative STAY PLASTIC FREE is removing plastics from the hospitality industry. Feature Image: Jake Rosenberg You might think that Ben Pundole, founding editor of AHotelLife.com and VP of brand experiences at EDITION Hotels, was too busy to take on new projects. You’d be mistaken. Now, when rattling off his titles,...
Ben Pundole’s New Mission to Make Hotels Greenspherical
Away’s Jen Rubio On Revolutionizing a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry
It all started with a broken suitcase in Zurich. Here’s how Jen Rubio, co-founder and chief brand officer of Away, is taking on the luggage industry. During a trip to Switzerland, Jen Rubio’s suitcase broke in the middle of Zurich Airport. Her clothes spilled out and she used tape as a quick fix. Looking for a new...
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Brian Jones of Kin Travel on Sustainable Tourism
Head to www.kin.travel to learn more about their offerings. For Brian Jones, travel has never just been about seeing new destinations. “It’s all about a connection born of honoring a place,” says the Washington state native. After running an orphanage in Kenya and working with a healthcare organization in Nepal, he saw firsthand the need...
