Photographs & Memories - David Chestler: Look beyond your boundaries

Travel Market Life

What do Burger King and the dot.com revolution have in common? Iconic hospitality figure David Chestler shares his journey from marketing one of the world’s fast-food giants to fusing publishing and technology in the dot.com boom of the late-1990s.

Prompted by three photographs and a souvenir of his lifetime of travel, our Memory Maker shares amusing anecdotes involving talcum powder, wrestling and royalty - both of the hospitality industry and crowned princes.

David’s passion for hotel technology helped him forge a career spanning more than 30 years in the industry. Currently Partner and Senior Managing Director at PROVision Partners, he has held senior positions at Kognitiv, SiteMinder, Sceptre Hospitality Resources (SHR), RateGain, Pegasus Solutions and Birch Street Systems and most recently serving as an Allied Board Member at Hedna.org and with HTNG on the Software Resource Team.

Our Memory Makers choose three photographs and a treasured souvenir of places or people from their travels. The four items represent moments of particular importance to them, whether personally or professionally. They take us on a journey, reflecting on the significance of a specific moment in time, the sentiment of the period, and what was going on in the world around us.

Produced by Travel Market Life, a Haynes MarComs series. Hosted and sponsored by Atomize.

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