Mark Band, CEO of Parks & Leisure Australia

Mark Band, CEO of Parks & Leisure Australia on Leisure as a Human Right, the People Behind our Places and Spaces & the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum

Mark Band, CEO of Parks & Leisure Australia, shares with listeners his valuable insights into the Parks and Leisure Industry within Australia and across the globe. Drawing parallels between Australia and his birth country England, Mark describes how the traditional leisure activities that we all enjoy today stem from as far back as the Industrial Revolution. Mark explains during this …

Four Ways to Help Empower Your Employees and Achieve Greater Business Success

Everyone wants to have employees who feel empowered to participate and make decisions in their roles. But how one achieves this is another question entirely. Often, things that can lead to a feeling of empowerment get cut from the budget or people pay lip service to ideas without proper follow-through. Other times, they simply don’t know which moves to make …

Hospitality Trends: The Social Messaging Gold Rush

Hospitality Trends: The Social Messaging Gold Rush

Research shows that social messaging is one of the fastest growing behaviors online today. This should come as little surprise with WhatsApp, Wechat, Viber and Facebook Messenger coming to dominate how much of the globe communicates. Look at the daily active user (the lifeblood of any application) totals for any of these platforms and you’ll find them consistently outperforming social …

5 Ways to Increase the Value of Your Accommodation Business

5 Ways to Increase the Value of Your Accommodation Business

When it comes to running a scalable and successful business, you always want to be thinking about how to increase value, thinking up new and innovative ways to grow and solve problems that keep you stuck in the same place. In my experience running an accommodation business, I’ve come up against this problem time and time again, and have picked …