Suite Success: Masters of Hospitality

Katie Cline

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Booking Overview

Suite Success is a weekly hospitality-and-brand strategy show where host Katie Cline interviews senior hospitality and experience leaders on how they build loyalty, culture, and differentiated guest journeys. For PR pros, it’s a strong platform for execs and founders who can speak credibly about brand building, customer experience, and scalable operations in hospitality-adjacent categories.

Metrics

Episodes: 90

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 13.8k subscribers

Instagram: 24.0k followers

Contact Information

wil@skift.com

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Host

Katie Cline - Katie Cline is the host of Suite Success: Masters of Hospitality (a Skift Podcast). She is described as an industry expert who interviews top hospitality executives, seasoned leaders, and innovator...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Hospitality brand executives, hotel/resort leaders, hospitality-adjacent founders and operators (wellness/fitness, lifestyle brands, real estate investing operators) who have led recognizable growth, scaling, or brand-building outcomes.
Required Achievements:  
CEO/co-founder leadership of established hospitality/lifestyle brands, Scaling businesses to multi-location or franchise footprints, Building customer-obsessed service and culture systems, Publishing books or leading high-visibility communities/education programs in hospitality-relevant niches, Executive leadership roles tied to operations/development at major hospitality or wellness companies

Recent Guest Discussions

John Cohlan - Hospitality Brand Building, Brand Extensions, Culture/training Systems, Customer Loyalty, And Turning An Entertainment Concept Into A Global Lifestyle Hospitality Brand

Adam Shane - Turning Hospitality Into A Scalable Wellness/fitness Experience, Immersive Design And Community, Franchising Mindset, Growth/operations, And Expanding Boutique Wellness Brands

Amelia McGee - Building Community-driven Real Estate Investing Through Retreats/masterminds/education, Hospitality-led Onboarding And First Impressions, And Acceleration Through Peer Networks

Grace Gudenkauf - Building Community-driven Real Estate Investing, Confidence And Onboarding Using Hospitality Principles, Co-founder Dynamics, And Education/retreats For Women In Real Estate

Recent Topics

Hospitality, Hotels, Branding, Customer, Loyalty

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Suite Success: Masters of Hospitality
:

Inside NYU IHIF 2026: What CEOs, Investors & Industry Leaders See Next

June 11, 2026

On this episode of Suite Success, host Katie Cline takes listeners inside the 2026 NYU International Hospitality Investment Forum (NYU IHIF), one of the most influential gatherings in global hospitality, travel, and hotel real estate. Featuring exclusive conversations with Alexi Khajavi, Group President of Hospitality and Operational Real Estate at Questex; Robert O'Leary, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Travel and Tourism; and Omer Acar, CEO of Raffles & Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, this specia...

The Billion-Dollar Business Hidden Inside a Jimmy Buffett Song

June 04, 2026

On this episode of Suite Success, host Katie Cline interviews John Cohlan, CEO and Co-Founder of Margaritaville, to explore how a single Jimmy Buffett song evolved into a global lifestyle brand spanning hotels, resorts, cruises, active adult communities, restaurants, consumer products, and more. John shares the unlikely story of how a Princeton graduate and Georgetown-trained lawyer who never practiced law found himself partnering with Jimmy Buffett to build one of hospitality’s most recog...

How This Entrepreneur Turned Hospitality Into a $90 Million Fitness Empire

May 28, 2026

On this episode of Suite Success, host Katie Cline sits down with entrepreneur and boutique fitness executive Adam Shane for a conversation about hospitality, wellness, entrepreneurship, and the power of immersive experiences. Adam is the owner of Yoga Joint New York, a premier chain of infrared-heated fitness and hot yoga studios.  Adam started his career in investment banking and corporate finance on Wall Street. But despite the prestige of that path, he found himself drawn to something ...

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