Christopher J. Nassetta

It's been talked about ad nauseum, both by the model providers, basically any app provider who's selling AI is positioning this as something that is a human enhancement tool, right? Not a job elimination tool.

At the forum, there was this discussion again between the top five hotel CEOs, Hilton, etc., talking about you're never taking all the people out was kind of the big kind of recurring theme that Chris Nassetta from Hilton said.

Of course, Sebastian Bazin put roughly a third of the workforce across its network in the displacement column and said he's already talking with Hilton.

unions about retraining, right? And like what that looks like.

The food and beverage model is a barista led all day market with grab and grow, grab and grow, grab and go.

Instead of graduates more bespoke approach, Hilton bought graduate in 2024 from AJ Capital Partners for a reported $210 million.

And the idea for undergraduate started when CEO Chris Nassetta noticed few lodging options in small college towns while visiting his daughter at Bucknell.

Hackett says she hasn't seen other prototypical models built for scale in the college town space.

Yeah.

And Chris Nassetta gave a great overview this morning of this topic.

As hotel companies, we're an asset light hotel company.

So we rely on our owners' investments to drive not just the customer experience, but ultimately growth.

Yeah.

And Chris Nassetta gave a great overview this morning of this topic.

As hotel companies, we're an asset light hotel company.

So we rely on our owners' investments to drive not just the customer experience, but ultimately growth.

So I'm very excited to hear from Duncan.

And then we also have Chris Nassetta, president and CEO of Hilton.

He's gonna be talking about the business of hospitality and where the industry is headed, so that's gonna be a really great conversation.

We have Rich Russo, principal at Highgate.

And it was really cool.

And I also, I love, I love listening to Chris Nassetta.

I love, I love, I mean, I've done a lot of reporting on hotels this year that we had a lot of hotel CEOs in the house, you know, between Sean and I, I think we,

I think we

He doesn't care.

Chris Nassetta is the president and CEO of Hilton.

and used this analogy, said, just a few weeks ago, I rode up the elevator with a group of interns.

They introduced themselves, told me a little bit about themselves, as much as you could do in an elevator ride.