Matt Talks Hospitality
Welcome to Matt Talks Hospitality, a hospitality podcast where every episode is tailored for hoteliers.
Your host, Matt Welle, Mews CEO, has spent over two decades in the hospitality industry. He shares valuable lessons and insights to help you fine-tune and improve your business. He brings together hospitality and tech experts to dive into hotel operations, revenue management, and more.
As the CEO of the hospitality software company Mews, he's excited to be making a mark on an industry which is as old as mankind. Its an industry that desperately needs a new generation of thinkers to drive innovation. He believes technology should not alienate personal relationships, it should rather help facilitate better and more personal service.
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Learn more about Matt Welle: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthijswelle/
Matt Talks Hospitality
New PMS, same chaos? What hotels get wrong about changing tech
Claudia Meglin, Director of CMC Hospitality Software, has seen it all – botched migrations, bloated rate plans and hotels that swap systems without fixing what’s actually broken. In this episode, she joins Matt to unpack why so many PMS projects go off the rails, how to prepare your teams for go-live day and what smart hoteliers do before even touching their tech stack.
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0:00 – Introduction
1:31 – Claudia Meglin's journey in hospitality
4:41 – Understanding hotel needs
5:26 – The problem with franchise hotels
9:52 – Real-life example: AMANO hotel
14:14 – Hotels don't need 150 rates
16:03 – What makes a PMS deployment successful
19:56 – The burden of legacy tech
26:28 – Survival guide for PMS migration