ON-DEMAND
EXECUTIVE PROGRAMME

Hospitality
SocialMedia Summit 2026

Turn social into a revenue-driving channel for demand, direct bookings and reputation.

included
  • HoSS 2026 recordings
  • Six months of access
  • Complete toolkit library
  • Digital Hub access
  • Certification included

Recorded live at Chicago Booth
School of Business, London.

Built by global social
leaders from
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Proven at HoSS 2026

200+participants
14countries
9.5/10overall experience
87%would recommend HoSS

BRANDS REPRESENTED AT HOSS 2026

Fairmont
Luxury Family Hotels
Hilton London Metropole
Dorsett Hotels
Lake District Hotels
IHG
Hyatt Hotels
4C Hotels
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Build the strategy. Then make it perform.

A practical on-demand programme built specifically for hospitality social.

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Work through the programme at your own pace, with six months of access to the recordings, tools and practical resources.

Learn from award-winning
hospitality social leaders

Behind the most distinguished global and independent brands

Whitney Reynolds

Co-producer & headliner

Whitney Reynolds

Former Global Director of Social, IHG and Kimpton — one of the most influential voices in hospitality social media.

multiple Award-winner

Brand Innovators “40 Under 40”and
Skift “Best Social Presence – Hotels”

faculty

Laura Ferrari

Laura Ferrari

Former Director of Social
Media EAME, Hyatt

LED HYATT SOCIAL
ACROSS 30+ COUNTRIES

Stefano Della Schiava

Stefano Della Schiava

Former Head of Nespresso
Content Studio

BUILT PREMIUM CONTENT SYSTEMS FOR GLOBAL BRANDS

Santiago García Solimei

Santiago García Solimei

Former Global Director of Social Media and Brands PR, Meliá

LED MELIÁ TO BECOME A HOSPITALITY SOCIAL LEADER

Ben Lilly

Ben Lilly

Founder and CEO, Giant Leap Digital

BEHIND AWARD-WINNING CAMPAIGNS FOR LUXURY HOSPITALITY BRANDS INCLUDING CHENOT AND CORINTHIA HOTELS

Steve Hyde

Steve Hyde

Co-Founder, PUSH

BEHIND ONE OF EUROPE’S MOST AWARDED PERFORMANCE AGENCIES

Tom Smee

Tom Smee

Head of Social, 80 DAYS

SHAPING SOCIAL STRATEGY AND CONTENT FOR LEADING HOSPITALITY AND TRAVEL BRANDS

Jai Khan

Jai Khan

New Business and Growth Marketing Director, Push

AI, Digital Strategy and Commercial Growth Specialist

Cim Dahir

Cim Dahir

Account Director, Push

AI-Powered Marketing and Performance Strategy Specialist

Addressed to

Designed for hospitality professionals shaping guestexperience, brand identity, and business growth.

Hotels & resorts

Independent hotels, luxury and lifestyle properties, resorts and destination businesses.

Hospitality groups & operators

Global and multi-property hotel groups, management companies and hospitality operators.

Restaurants & F&B

Restaurant groups, bars and hospitality-led food and beverage businesses.

Hotel owners & developersBrand & marketing directors & managersGeneral managersGuest experience managersAsset & Operations managers

External consultants

Equip your clients with scent strategies that drivedifferentiation
and measurable impact.

Strategic skills you’ll take away

Build a commercial
social strategy

Connect social to demand,
bookings and business priorities.

Set the right
commercial KPIs

Measure what matters beyond reach
and engagement.

Create content that
earns attention

Build stronger pillars, hooks and
formats.

Turn social into
demand

Connect content, paid and
organic to conversion.

Use AI without losing
the brand

Apply AI while protecting voice and
consistency.

Strengthen
reputation

Create clearer systems for
response and escalation.

Don't just watch. Build it.

As you work through the programme, you'll build:

Strategy on a Page

Your Strategy on a Page

Your commercial goals, audiences, channels, content priorities and social role in one clear framework.

90-Day Execution Plan

Your 90-day execution plan

What to launch, test and
prioritise next.

Measurement Framework

Your measurement framework

The KPIs and reporting structure that connect social activity to business performance.

Execution Toolkit

Your execution
toolkit

Blueprints, prompts,
workflows, briefs and
playbooks from the Day 2 labs
you choose.

You leave with decisions made, plans built and systems your team can actually use.

The Programme

strategic masterclass7 Sessions

Build the strategy

One masterclass, led end-
to-end by Whitney
Reynolds.Seven connected
sessions, each building
a section of your strategy.

Whitney Reynolds

Whitney Reynolds

Former Global Director of Social Marketing, IHG and Kimpton

YOU FINISH WITH YOUR

Strategy on a Page

In this session you will map your top commercial goals directly to social media objectives, giving you a clear rationale for every decision you make on social from this point forward.

You will build a prioritised audience map and match each segment to the channel where they are most reachable — so you stop spreading budget and effort thin.

Using your audience map, you will define three to four content pillars and draft sample posts for each — a repeatable content engine you can hand to any team member.

You will codify your brand voice, set tone rules for different scenarios and define visual guardrails — making consistency the default, not the exception.

A practical filter session. You will select three to four tactics, assign owners and define the signals that tell you whether each one is working.

You will set a primary KPI for each goal, establish your current baseline, define a realistic target and attach a timeline — making your reporting board-ready.

The final session pulls everything together into your Strategy on a Page — a single document that captures your goals, audiences, channels, content pillars, tactics and KPIs.

Chloe North

Head of Marketing, Donnington Group

“Whitney explained strategy writing in one of the clearest forms I've experienced.”

In-depth labs

Build the systems

Eight specialist 90-minute
labs, each led by a
practitioner in that discipline. Every lab ships a
named asset your team can
use on Monday.

5 Labs90 Minutes Each

YOU FINISH WITH YOUR

an execution toolkit

Explore the complete journey from social discovery to direct booking, and identify where positioning, content, conversion, paid amplification and CRM can work harder together.

Learn how relevance, creative direction, composition, movement and stronger hooks can make hospitality content more likely to stop the scroll and hold attention.

Learn how to keep a strong global brand core while adapting messaging, platforms, content and execution to the realities of individual markets.

Explore where AI can genuinely improve marketing operations, how discovery is changing through AI search, and how to scale content and workflows without losing expertise, judgement or brand quality.

Build a clearer system for handling comments, DMs, complaints and sensitive conversations, including response structure, prioritisation, AI boundaries, escalation and measurement.

Sophia Slater

80 DAYS

“I left feeling so inspired and really excited to go back to my hotels and create more content.”

Your programme lives in the Digital Hub

Six months to watch the sessions, revisit the frameworks and put the tools into practice.

Watch the sessions

Access the HoSS 2026 masterclasses and specialist labs on demand, and move through the programme in the order and pace that suits you.Access the HoSS 2026 masterclasses and specialist labs on demand, and move through the programme in the order and pace that suits you. Access the HoSS 2026 masterclasses and specialist labs on demand, and move through the programme in the order and pace that suits you.

Use the frameworks

Return to the strategic frameworks, teaching points and examples whenever you need to shape a plan, brief a team or refine your thinking.

Use the tools

Put the learning to work through practical resources designed to support better strategy, better content and better commercial decisions.

Keep it for six months

Use the Hub as an active working resource for the next six months, with time to revisit sessions, return to ideas and apply them properly.

What the room said.

Chloe North

Head of Marketing,
Donnington Group

“Social stops being just a content channel and starts becoming a revenue line.”

Tessa Coutts

Social Media Manager,
Emerald Hospitality Group

“Two days of genuinely useful thinking, not fluff. Taking a lot of this straight back to Emerald Hospitality Group.”

Ian Moloney

Marketing Communications Manager,
The Killarney Park & The Ross

“There are so many courses out there that tell you how to do social media or build your strategy, but very few focus on the hospitality side, which is so unique.”

Lee Clarke

Sales and Marketing Manager,
Grand Hotel Birmingham

“Something like this pulls you out of the routine, refreshes your thinking, gives you more knowledge and brings you back up to date with trends and ideas. I would definitely recommend attending.”

Laura Delaney

Marketing and Communications Manager,
Fairmont Cheshire

“It was great to hear from so many industry leaders and gain fresh perspectives on the evolving role of social media within hospitality, from building stronger strategies and driving revenue to creating meaningful guest connections.”

Rupert Riley

Social Strategy Manager,
Urban Pubs and Bars

“Plenty to take back to 68 pubs at Urban Pubs and Bars.”

Rav Matharu

Senior Marketing Executive,
JKS Restaurants

“It’s given me a lot more confidence to develop our own social media strategy for the restaurants. There were tips and ideas introduced that I’d never thought of before.”

Olivia Edmondson

Marketing Executive,
Lake District Hotels

“There are so many social media and marketing conferences and experiences, but to have something that is just talking about hospitality is so important.”

Sandeep Krishnan Krishnakumar

Sales Manager, The LaLiT London

“It offered valuable insights into effectively using social media and the growing role of AI in marketing.”

Choose your level of access

Access HoSS 2026 on demand, or upgrade to the complete six-month pathway with 17 in-depth social media strategy courses.

EXECUTIVE
PROGRAMME

£195

Executive Programme — 3-4 September, sessions + labs

6 months of recordings + Summit resources

Certification

EXECUTIVE
PROGRAMME + ACADEMY

£295

Executive Programme — 3-4 September, sessions + labs

6 months of recordings + Summit resources

Certification

17 certified Social Media Strategy courses

AI practice simulators

Full frameworks, tools + resource library

HoSS 2026 partners

Summit sponsor
Site Minder
industry partners
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video and content partner
Opqositeland Productions
PR partner
Genplus Group
tech partner
Tech Partner
PROGRAMME PARTNERS
Giant LeapShiftPush80 days travel markerting
Official Media Partner
HotelBoutique HotelierHotel OwnerHotel Speak
HoSS is a member of
UK Hospitality

Before you start

Questions that matter

You get the complete HoSS 2026 Executive Programme, programme recordings, practical frameworks and tools, Digital Hub access and certification.

Your access remains available for six months, giving you time to work through the programme at your own pace and revisit sessions when you need them.

Yes. HoSS 2026 is fully on demand, so you can watch, pause and return to the programme whenever it suits you during your access period.

Yes. Your access includes the HoSS 2026 programme recordings and the accompanying resources available within the Digital Hub.

Yes. Programme certification is included with your access.

Each access is intended for one participant. For multiple colleagues, contact us about team access.

Yes. Confirmed HoSS 2027 delegates receive complimentary access to the HoSS 2026 programme and Digital Hub.

Hospitality professionals working across marketing, social, digital, brand, commercial performance, guest experience and operations.

Build the social capability your organisation needs next

Hospitality-specific strategy, execution and reusable tools, with six months of on-demand access.