Bashar Wali is a jet setter, a TED talker, and a hospitality evangelist.
On Wednesday, April 26, Travel Insights with Chryssa Skodra features Mr. Bashar Wali, founder and CEO of This Assembly and Practice Hospitality.
Bashar draws upon expertise honed over a 30-year career in hospitality. An expert in the lifestyle space, Bashar is known for pushing limits in his philosopher-meets-hotelier kind of way.
Bashar is a jet setter, a TED talker, and a hospitality evangelist. A man who is not afraid to challenge the status quo with a child-like curiosity about life, people and experiences.
Bashar can speak to the ins and outs of the Hotel Industry because he’s done it all. Most at home on the road, he eats, sleeps and breathes this calling we call hospitality. Some might say he’s obsessed with hotels. But it’s really the humans behind them that drive him.
When Bashar isn’t traveling to 50+ countries and 45+ states, he’s home in Portland, Oregon with his wife and kids, dreaming up the hotels of tomorrow.
Mr. Wali is the best person to give us his insights into today’s topic: ‘Longing for belonging: What shapes the hotels of tomorrow’
Chryssa Skodra is a Finland-based journalist, a celebrity interviewer, a podcaster, an award-winning blogger, a university lecturer and a public speaker. She holds a Bachelor’s in Communications and Media from Athens University and a Master’s in Arts Management from the prestigious Sibelius Academy.
She worked at spotlight international events such as the Athens 2004 Olympic Games and European Commission Conferences and Galas. She is passionate about travelling, food and events. On ‘Travel Insights’ she interviews influential and insightful thought-leaders and professionals from the tourism, aviation and hospitality industries.
