Evan Frank

Our brand speaks to the fun of travel advising. However, 3 years after the pivotal coffee that Henley and I had, Fora Travel is a serious travel business. Serious training, serious community, serious technology, serious inclusivity & serious production. foratravel.com/the-journal/fo…

@SoveyX @grok is there a transcript for this?

This is brilliant.

@Jason @UberEats Next time book with @hellofora and we’ll get you F&B $ to help cover that. foratravel.com/partners/dorch…

Was thinking of getting the mocha for… $25?!?! and chicken tenders for $34 — does that come with a poolside massage? 😂😂😂 I'm seriously considering @UberEats ing from Starbucks

Will AI speed the decline of travel agents? Or will it actually diminish the power of OTAs? I'm betting on the latter. Thank you @denschaal and @skift - always happy to talk about this topic.

@bdickins @joshk Let a @hellofora advisor book it for you for Rosewood Elite perks ;) DM me

@joshk Rosewood - you going at start of march?

Hotel recommendations in São Paulo?

@typesfast @typesfast we're hiring across various eng/product roles in NYC at Fora Travel, building an entirely new distribution channel for the travel industry, backed by @ForerunnerVC.

If your company is hiring top tech talent, we have some awesome folks who passed our very high bar that we are rescinding offers to. It sucks. I'm deeply sorry. But would love to connect with companies adding software engineering and related talent. I hope they will all land on their feet as we'll do what we can to help. DM me and I'll connect you to our recruiting lead running point on this.

Italy is hot — literally and figuratively. Get Henley’s take in ep1 of speadtalking. speedtalking.foratravel.com

@rafat Rafat, you really need a travel agent…

Booking a hotel in Ahmedabad, India & hotel is charging extra for kids, even though with two rooms booked, there is one parent & one kid in each room. After I pushed back, they won’t charge for kids under 5, one of ours is 8. Never heard of such a thing, should I cancel?

🚨 Airbnb just eliminated its traditional product management function. This is one of the boldest experiments in product management we have seen in quite some time. → Who’s going to own the roadmap? → Who will cross-functional teams collaborate with? → Who will be responsible for writing the team’s charter, focus problems, and metrics? Brian has been posting Twitter threads of each of Airbnb’s two most recent product releases. So it sounds like the executives are re-taking over the roadmap. And, presumably, engineering managers and designers will split the other tasks. It will be an interesting experiment to watch. The crowd erupted in applause. Is there something broken with today’s product management? What do you think of the change?

@natashaghoskins You are enough.

I just don’t have any more content in me

@nytimes my 8 year old started playing Wordle yesterday - has this ever happened before?

@JAalster @rafat 🫡

@rafat I feel like @evanbfrank can make this happen.

Whoever gets AI into the hands of travel advisors first has a massive competitive advantage. Easier said than done.

@denschaal Cruises, hotels, experiences = high enough third party commissions to build an affiliate business off of (direct booking in the case of Viator). Other categories not so much.

Not financially significant but interesting: Tripadvisor decided to de-emphasize car rentals, vacation rentals and flights. It will keep investing in cruises, which are booming.

Tripadvisor Restructures to Address Its Lagging Core Business skift.com/2023/02/15/tri… via @Skift

@Lauren_Southern Join @hellofora. Support local hotels.

@wolfejosh Where’s that visualization from? It’s great.

FICTION...

@samclaassen Next steps: join @hellofora as a travel advisor and make some $

I’m officially 100% on team hotel > Airbnb now. And I own an Airbnb.

@nomadicmatt Use a travel agent @hellofora

@TerribleFinance Indeed! cc @hellofora

@andrewchen Wolf Hall (Wolf Hall Trilogy, 1) a.co/d/dWHdTEd

What are y’all reading?

Currently reading…

@michaelwolf42 @srcasm @ResortPass Really cool biz :) I am following.

@srcasm @ResortPass Thanks Jesse!! Great things ahead!

Congratulations @ResortPass and Michael Wolf on the great announcement today! 🚀 techcrunch.com/2022/11/30/bac…