Episode 8

Jason Pinto: Revolutionizing hotel revenue management with AI and Machine Learning

Jason Pinto discusses how AI and machine learning are revolutionizing hotel revenue management, enabling smarter pricing, forecasting, and decision-making for hoteliers of all sizes.

 

About the guest

Jason Pinto

Jason Pinto

Co-Founder & COO, Pace Revenue

 

Jason Pinto is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Pace Revenue, a leading AI-powered revenue management platform built for the modern hospitality industry. Drawn to the complexity of hotel pricing from early in his career, Jason has become one of the industry's most articulate voices on the intersection of data science, distribution strategy, and revenue optimization. He is a vocal advocate for open pricing, real-time demand responsiveness, and the critical importance of revenue technology adoption across all hotel segments — from independent boutiques to large branded portfolios.

Transcript

Jason Pinto


When you step off into the realm of machine learning, that is where essentially you’re not generating fixed rules. So that really is in my mind what differentiates a set of algorithms which are rules based from machine learning.



Sebastien Leitner


Welcome to The Turnaround. My name is Sebastian Leitner. And in this week’s episode, I’m interviewing Jason Pinto. He’s the cofounder and COO of PACE Revenue. Jason has a great profile. He is a technologist at heart. The conversation really is around where’s revenue management going with the sort of merge and emergence of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and conversational, you know, artificial intelligence, if you will. I challenge him because I want to know, is it going to replace revenue address on-site? He stays clear of saying yes, but I can’t wait for you to discover his perspective. So let’s roll the tape.


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