Advancing hospitality through shared wisdom.
Hospitality Fellows brings together the leaders and thinkers shaping the future of hospitality.
Through perspectives and conversations, we explore how they solve problems, make decisions, and move the industry forward. Their knowledge becomes a shared resource others can learn from and apply.
/ˈfelō/Fellow
noun
A peer recognized for knowledge, experience, and contribution within a profession or field of practice.
Knowledge shaped through practice.
What you know can move hospitality forward.
The people shaping hospitality develop ideas, approaches, and lessons that others can learn from. Hospitality Fellows brings that knowledge together in a growing library of collective wisdom.
Through Fellow Perspectives and Fellow Conversations, we share the thinking behind leadership, decisions, and progress. Over time, these contributions will form a searchable resource that supports practical learning, future cases, and original research.
As AI changes how we access information, human experience and judgment remain central to understanding how to act.
Become A Fellow
Contribute your thinking and help shape the industry’s collective knowledge.
Join the Society
Connect with the ideas shaping hospitality through our monthly newsletter.
Areas of
Practice
Explore the disciplines that shape hospitality. We welcome contributions within each field and across their intersections.
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Hotel ownership, acquisitions, capital, financing, asset strategy, and investment decisions.
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Building systems, improving performance, and delivering consistent guest experiences.
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Planning, developing, renovating, and designing hospitality spaces.
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Leading teams, developing talent, shaping culture, and navigating change.
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Evaluating tools, adopting technology, and applying innovation with purpose.
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Understanding audiences, building brands, generating demand, and guiding revenue decisions.
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Building businesses, solving client challenges, and developing approaches others can use.
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Strengthening industry relationships, advancing shared interests, and contributing to communities.
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Hospitality Fellows is intentionally multidisciplinary. Strong ideas and useful experience often sit at the intersection of more than one field.
What do you know that is worth sharing?
We’re developing our first podcast conversations and inviting written contributions from hospitality practitioners.
Fellow Perspectives
Share a methodology, informed viewpoint, or lesson grounded in your work. Make your reasoning clear and useful.
Fellow Conversations
Podcast and video exploring how practitioners think, decide, and work, hosted by Heather Carnes.
Founded by
Heather Carnes
Giving back through shared knowledge.
Heather Carnes founded Hospitality Fellows to bring the industry’s leaders and thinkers together and build a lasting library of knowledge worth sharing.
As Founder & Managing Director of Carnes Agency, she saw a need for that space. Hospitality Fellows is also her way of giving back to the industry that shaped her career, making its collective wisdom accessible and useful to others.
Become a Fellow
Bring your experience to the conversation.
Share what you’ve learned through Fellow Perspectives or Fellow Conversations.
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The Work of Hospitality Fellows
A growing record of the ideas, judgments, and practices influencing hospitality today.
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Contributed essays, opinion, and analysis.
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Applied studies of real projects, decisions, and outcomes.
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Curated, small-group discussions focused on consequential industry questions.
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Published findings and editorial synthesis developed from Fellows Forum conversations.