Among friends, we joke that WIHP (now part of Cendyn) was the PayPal Mafia of hotel marketing. It sparked more entrepreneurs than any other hotel tech startup I know of (Design Hotels did quite good too). It wasn’t planned that way, of course. But for a few years, there was this unique cluster of talent, energy, creativity, and sheer determination that somehow all landed in one place – and which then went off to create even more hotel marketing technology and agencies.
