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Hotel Guest Experience Magazine

Peer insights, frameworks and strategic thinking on guest experience, written by the hoteliers doing the work, not the people commenting on it.

Inside the latest issue

  • Cover interviewAdam Blake, CEO of ThreatSpike
  • LaunchingThe Hotel Guest Experience Hub
  • EventThe C-Level Hotel Guest Experience Summit
  • Special feature3rd Hotel Guest Experience Forum, London 2026

Coming next: Issue 04, Q2 2026. On the cover: Adam Blake, CEO of ThreatSpike.

Back issues

Every edition is free to read online.

Issue 03

April 2025

Guest experience, leadership and strategy.

Issue 02

January 2025

Guest journey, operations and innovation.

Issue 01: The launch issue

October 2024

Trends to watch and interviews with industry leaders.

What we write about

Six subjects we keep coming back to, because they are where guest experience is won or lost.

Guest experience architecture

Strategy

Frameworks that turn guest experience from an aspiration into a repeatable, measurable outcome.

Revenue & distribution

Commercial

How great guest experience builds trust, grows loyalty and strengthens direct booking over time.

AI, systems & security

Technology

Hotel technology examined with clarity, where it amplifies the people and thinking that deliver experience.

Brand, loyalty & guest communication

Marketing & brand

How hotels build and protect their brand through every guest interaction.

Operational excellence

Operations

The processes, standards and coordination between departments that deliver a consistent stay.

People & culture

Leadership

The human layer beneath every framework: leadership, accountability and culture.

From the same community

Hotel Guest Experience Forum

The magazine grew out of the Forum, an invite-only room for Directors, VPs and C-suite hoteliers to talk honestly about what is working in guest experience. Five events so far, more than 480 hotel leaders, three years running.

Coming up

Date TBC, 2027

4th London HGEF

Venue TBC, London

26 May 2027

2nd European HGEF

Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers by IHG

Date TBC, 2027

1st Ireland HGEF

Venue TBC, Dublin

Write for us

If you work in hotels and have something the industry should hear, we want to talk to you. We publish hoteliers who are shaping guest experience: practitioners, not commentators.

Be interviewed

Share your experience in a featured interview with our editors.

Contribute an article

A column, an opinion piece, or a framework others can use.

Raise an issue

A trend or challenge you think the industry is not talking about enough.

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Why we publish

Guest experience deserves the same rigour as revenue and operations. We look at it across strategy, operations, technology and culture, so hoteliers can shape it with confidence.

The editors, Hotel Guest Experience Magazine