HOSTS & HOME TEAMS™
A Traveling Think-Lab on Modern STR + Destination Alignment
SUMMIT
WE ALL HOST THIS PLACE
Tourism Is Entering a Critical Transition
Visitor behavior is shifting.
Housing pressure is rising.
Communities are asking harder questions.
Destination organizations are increasingly expected to create alignment across systems that were never designed to work together.
Hosts & Home Teams™ was created to meet that moment for the home team…and the host.
By lunch, you should understand this problem better than most people in your market.
By five PM, you will have a usuable framework to implement Monday.
What This Room Makes Possible
One Focused Day.
One Working Room.
Hosts & Home Teams™ is intentionally designed as a single, focused working day.
By lunch, you should understand this problem better than most people in your market.
The goal is not volume or spectacle. It’s depth, clarity, and usable outcomes, created in a room where the right people can actually work together.
Highlighted Sessions
The Build Lab
Participants co-create shared principles, decision frameworks, and language that travels.
Wall Walk
Insights refined, connections made visible, and momentum builds.
The Synthesis
Whole-room clarity on what is actionable now and what needs structural change.
Familiar Faces + Advisors
Jennifer Barbee
David Krauss
Tyann Marcink Hammond
Tyson Gardner
Mellissa Brayan
Mellissa Brayan
TICKET PRICING
Event Pass & Tickets
Thinking of bringing a cross-funtion delegation? That’s a 50% discount for 4 people. Contact us to assist you with securing that group.
Delegate
For Hosts, DMOs, and STR Leaders.-
Full-day working session
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Labs, spotlights, and build work
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Meals + Street Faire included
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Live scribes capturing the work in real time
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Access to the post-event framework + shared outputs
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Limited to 50 Host and 50 DMO delegates
Contributor
For platforms, suppliers, agencies, and tech partners.-
Full-day seat in the working room
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Structured participation (not selling, not observing)
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Meals + Street Faire included
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Live scribes capturing insights, language, and patterns
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Access to the post-event framework + shared outputs
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Limited to 20 service providers
Backer
Flat Sponsorship. For organizations who want to support the work.-
Three passes. Support the day through hospitality and experience
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Enable the Sponsor Street Faire (food, space, energy...not booths)
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Recognition in the post-event framework release
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Early visibility into pilots and follow-on work
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Recognition on the issues hallway aligned with SMEs
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Limited to 10 sponsors
Partners who collaborate with us
The Reason
Hosts, Short-Term Rental Operators, and PMGs
For Short-Term Rental Hosts, Operators, and PMGs Who Want a Seat at the Table Hosts & Home Teams™ creates space for hosts to engage with destination systems from a place of context, not assumption. In the lab, hosts meet destination and civic leaders and gain insight
DMOs, Civic Leaders, and Destination Stewards
For Destination Leaders Who Want Alignment, Not Tension Hosts & Home Teams™ offers destination leaders a structured way to engage with the host and short-term rental ecosystem beyond regulation, reaction, or one-off outreach. In the lab, DMOs and civic leaders work directly alongside hosts, operators, platform leaders,
Platforms, Service Providers, Advisors, and Industry Builders
If You Build for the Ecosystem, You Belong in the Room If you build tools, platforms, or services for this ecosystem, this is where they get stress-tested in the room with the people living the consequences. Hosts & Home Teams™ gives Contributors structured access to the
Organizations Investing in Destination Alignment
For Organizations Investing in Destination Alignment Some sponsorships buy attention. This one supports the work. Hosts & Home Teams™ is supported by a small group of sponsors who believe the future of the visitor economy depends on alignment, trust, and systems that function in the real
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