Drew Fortner, founder and CEO of Alaska Shore Tours, wired an AI agent into his reservation system. His dashboard says the return on that spend is around 9,000%.

Alaska Shore Tours is a shore excursion marketplace that has planned tours for over 125,000 cruise guests across seven regional booking sites in Alaska. Drew started as a tour guide in Colorado, moved into sales and marketing, and built a platform that now lets AI tools pull availability, pricing and cruise schedules and send a ready-to-book proposal in the middle of a web chat. Five years ago that build would’ve cost six figures and a dev team.

Brennan Bliss, founder and CEO of Propellic, talks with Drew about how he measures AI spend against minutes saved, why 80% of his customers book within 24 hours of first finding the site, the one ad message that beat everything else in Google Ads testing, and how a mid-size reseller competes with the cruise ship for the same tour.

Wedding related travel, including honeymoons, is now an estimated $75 billion piece of the travel industry. Brennen sits down with Sara Margulis, co-founder and CEO of Honeyfund, to talk about how wedding spend is moving away from the big day and into travel: micro weddings are up, destination weddings are up, and couples are funding honeymoons and even babymoons instead of registering for household goods.

Sara also breaks down how Honeyfund built a fee-free model into a genuine growth engine, why paid acquisition still matters even with a built-in viral loop, since every year brings a brand new set of couples, and how Honeyfund is already showing up in ChatGPT and Google AI Overview before couples run a traditional search.

In this episode, Victor, CTO of Kampaoh, joins the podcast to reveal how aligning your technology leader with your marketing team can skyrocket your travel brand's revenue. Kampaoh has rapidly scaled to over 90 campsites across Europe by turning "easy camping" into a highly personalized, data-driven customer journey.

Discover why they decided to build a custom Customer 360 platform from scratch, how they leverage WhatsApp for pre-arrival communication, and their brilliant strategy of using OTAs like Booking.com as paid advertising rather than a primary sales channel. Whether you are a CMO, CTO, or founder in the hospitality space, this conversation is packed with actionable insights on building a seamless tech stack that drives true customer loyalty.