Melchiorri

Anthony Melchiorri, “business fixer” host of the Travel Channel’s makeover show, “Hotel Impossible,” speaks Friday, May 2, at 1:15 p.m. in Statler Auditorium.

The event, which is open to the Cornell community, is sponsored by the Hotel Graduate Student Organization and Cornell Hotel Society, and includes author Jeffrey Robinson, who will join Melchiorri to discuss the show and the hospitality industry.

After 20 years in the industry (including management roles at Manhattan’s Plaza, Lucerne and Algonquin hotels), Melchiorri created “Hotel Impossible” in 2012. Each episode, he promises, “features a hotel with serious, sometimes near-fatal problems” that his team deals with in under a week.