HHT Executive Retreat
One destination. One room. Once a year.
Each year, Hosts & Home Teams™ convenes an invitation-only Executive Retreat for a carefully selected group of tourism leaders from across the country.
The think tank behind the work.
The Retreat brings together leaders willing to examine what is changing across the visitor economy, challenge assumptions, identify emerging issues, and help establish the priorities that will guide the work ahead.
That work shapes the Lab. The Hosts & Home Teams Executive Retreat serves as both a think tank and a leadership council.
Participants help shape:
- The annual HHT research agenda
- New Field Lab methodologies
- Commissioned research priorities
- Emerging STR and DMO collaboration strategies
- Industry thought leadership initiatives
- Publications and articles
- Public education efforts
- Conference and media conversations
- Future Executive Retreat priorities
The conversations do not end when the Retreat concludes. They become the work.
The Executive Retreat is designed around emerging questions, not recycled conference topics.
The Retreat history
2026 | Portland, Oregon
The inaugural gathering brought together tourism leaders from across the visitor economy to test a new way of working.
2027 | Kansas City, KS (Fringe Event to Destinations International)
The next Executive Retreat will build on the lessons from Portland and help shape the next phase of Hosts & Home Teams™ research, Field Labs, and public work.
Interested in the Executive Retreat?
Tourism leaders, destinations, and industry partners may submit an expression of interest or recommend someone whose perspective should be represented.