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The Power of Opportunity in Hospitality: Podcast
12.10.2023 - 12:13 / skift.com / Adam Stacey / Colin Nagy / Liz Lambert
In episode five of the Skift Ideas Podcast, Colin is joined by Harsha L’Acqua, Founder & CEO of Saira Hospitality.
Harsha began her career working for some of the luxury hospitality industry’s most influential brands including Six Senses & AMAN and went on to graduate from Cornell University’s prestigious School of Hotel Administration’s MMH program.
Having grown up immersed in her father’s philanthropic work alongside Mother Teresa, L’Acqua actively sought out a way to combine her deep-rooted dedication to philanthropy with her passion for luxury hospitality and so, Saira Hospitality was created.
So far Saira has seen 361 graduates following partnerships with brands such as Accor, The Standard, Nobu and Pan Pacific, where bespoke pop-up and semi permanent schools were created to educate and empower local communities ready for a career in hospitality.
Join us as we explore Harsha’s remarkable journey within the ever-evolving hospitality sector and her vision for unlocking opportunities, as well as the enduring significance of the human touch in hospitality.
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Colin Nagy: In this episode of the Skift Ideas Podcast, we’re chatting with Harsha L’Acqua, founder and CEO of Saira Hospitality. She began her career working for some of the best luxury hospitality brands in the world, including Six Senses and Aman. And she’s also a graduate of Cornell University’s prestigious School of Hotel Administration. She grew up immersed in her father’s philanthropic work and actively sought out a way to combine her deep rooted dedication to philanthropy with her passion for luxury hospitality.
And as a result, Saira was born. So far, Saira has seen 361 graduates following partnerships with brands such as Accor, the Standard, Nobu and Pan Pacific. And she creates bespoke pop up and semi-permanent schools, and they’re created to empower and educate local communities that are ready to make a shift or start a career in hospitality.
Join us as we explore Harsha’s remarkable journey within the dynamic and ever evolving hospitality sector and her vision for unlocking opportunities and the enduring significance of the human touch and hospitality.
Welcome. We’re very happy to have you. Thank you for joining us today.
Harsha L’Acqua: Oh, thank you, Colin. So good to see you again. Thank you for having me on this.
Nagy: I had the good fortune of covering one of your projects back in the day when you worked with Liz Lambert, who has actually appeared on the show and basically set the stage for work in Todos Santos, we’ll get to that. But what I really love about what you do is it’s focusing on the most important thing of hospitality, you know, which
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