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Listen now (19 mins) | Can hospitality embrace AI, automation and new technology without losing the human connection at the heart of the industry?

Our first YouTube Live, Season 6 returns, a new home for The Handover and plenty happening across September.

What if hospitality businesses could do more than just make profit?

How do you actually write your first book — and more importantly, finish it?

This episode of Talking Hospitality explores one of the most important topics in the industry today: how we treat people at work.

In this episode of Talking Hospitality, Timothy R Andrews and Joe McDonnell sit down with Gary King, owner of Collins King & Associates, to explore what hospitality recruitment looks like after decades of disruption, change and survival.

This episode of Talking Hospitality explores a fundamental question: how do people actually learn at work?

This bonus episode of Talking Hospitality, recorded live at Confex 2026, explores one of the most misunderstood roles in the industry: human resources.

This bonus episode of Talking Hospitality is recorded live at Confex in London and shines a light on an unusual but powerful initiative bringing the industry together.

In this episode, Timothy R Andrews sits down with operator and campaigner Andy Lennox in the Old Thatch pub in Dorset to talk about what’s really happening behind the scenes in hospitality right now.

This episode explores what actually makes apprenticeships successful in hospitality — and why commitment from employers matters more than funding or frameworks.

This episode explores why hospitality continues to lose people, skills and funding — and what can actually be done about it.

This remastered bonus episode revisits a powerful conversation first recorded in 2020, where a walk up a mountain becomes a turning point for life and career.

This Christmas special explores what it really takes to get through the festive season while working in hospitality.

What does leadership look like when you’re raising children on your own, running a business, and carrying responsibilities that don’t switch off at 5pm?

Branding in hospitality isn’t a logo exercise — it’s the feeling people carry with them when they walk out the door.

In this episode of Talking Hospitality, Timothy R Andrews and Joe McDonnell are joined by Olajide Alabi, one of the UK’s most engaging voices in Equality, Diversity & Inclusion — and Co-Founder of SISU, the People Experience Agency.

In this very special audio-only bonus edition of Talking Hospitality (you won’t find it on YouTube), host Timothy R Andrews is joined once again by Tracey Rashid, returning to the mic for an inspiring conversation with Mex Ibrahim, co-founder of Women in the Food Industry

In this episode, we’re joined by Vince Kelly, manager of the Mayor’s Hospitality Skills Academy at Westminster Kingsway College, to talk about one of the biggest challenges facing the industry today — the skills gap.

In this episode, we tackle one of the most avoided topics in hospitality: tax.