Putting my hand up for the critic part, uncomfortable conversation and things that most think but have no courage to say. Unless it’s trending, then everyone suddenly has an opinion. What a great piece! For a while I thought I was the only one being angry about so many things in hospitality but now I see that I’m not alone.
YES SONJA we need you! It’s definitely time to blow some dust off our lovely but very hush-hush and conservative industry to make way for better practices, and that, like you said, also requires saying things out loud before other people have done so (GASP!!!)
Thank you for being here and reading, and you are definitely not alone in the frustration :’)
I absolutely looove the idea of hospitality being a humanities subject, and even layering it in with social sciences. The philosophy of, but also the psychology of, hospitality... why we make people feel welcome, what belonging means, how environments shape human behavior, why certain places make us feel at ease, the rituals of hospitality across cultures... Hospitality is so much more than operations or a service, and that is fascinating to me! I think you're really onto something.
When you think about it, isn’t it funny that there’s practically nothing about the history of hospitality or traditions etc. in hospitality education!?!? I would do a whole degree in humanities hospitality if I could lol. And the psychology part is equally important if not just the whole basis for excelling in the industry actually haha.
Hospitality doesn't need fashion's validation ....it needs its own critics, theorists, and cultural language. This is the conversation we should be having!!
"But where are the hospitality critics? Not reviewers!!! Critics!!!"
Your talents are needed more than ever.
My life’s work at this point
Perhaps we need to talk about this more in the live as well, because big yes on everything
WE SHALL
Putting my hand up for the critic part, uncomfortable conversation and things that most think but have no courage to say. Unless it’s trending, then everyone suddenly has an opinion. What a great piece! For a while I thought I was the only one being angry about so many things in hospitality but now I see that I’m not alone.
YES SONJA we need you! It’s definitely time to blow some dust off our lovely but very hush-hush and conservative industry to make way for better practices, and that, like you said, also requires saying things out loud before other people have done so (GASP!!!)
Thank you for being here and reading, and you are definitely not alone in the frustration :’)
Loved this. I would say I’m a hospitality critic - there are a few of us out there!
Absolutely! We should unionize lol
we welcome the rant!
Thank you for the lobster stamp of approval 🦞also I miss your letters
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I just can't get on board with the whole Ritz x Frame and Mandarin Oriental x Sporty & Rich. I just can't.
I’m bored! Imagine hotels commissioning designers to do this in-house instead :’)
Now that would be ideal.
I absolutely looove the idea of hospitality being a humanities subject, and even layering it in with social sciences. The philosophy of, but also the psychology of, hospitality... why we make people feel welcome, what belonging means, how environments shape human behavior, why certain places make us feel at ease, the rituals of hospitality across cultures... Hospitality is so much more than operations or a service, and that is fascinating to me! I think you're really onto something.
When you think about it, isn’t it funny that there’s practically nothing about the history of hospitality or traditions etc. in hospitality education!?!? I would do a whole degree in humanities hospitality if I could lol. And the psychology part is equally important if not just the whole basis for excelling in the industry actually haha.
LOVE having you here Kate!
Hospitality doesn't need fashion's validation ....it needs its own critics, theorists, and cultural language. This is the conversation we should be having!!
YES we are cool on our own! Let’s theorize 🤝🤝
Loved this and this is exactly what I love to look at - hospitality thru the lens of culture. not just rooms
Yes Lindsay!! We need you
We don’t need another sporty & rich collab hahahaha
We don’t but s&r does lol