These guidelines ensure that all opinion articles on Hospitality Net meet our standards for quality, relevance, and integrity. Whether you're a first-time contributor or a regular columnist, please review these guidelines before submitting your work.

Opinion articles should focus on insights, analysis, and discussions relevant to the hospitality industry—not promoting specific products, services, or companies.

While you can reference commercial entities for context ("As we've seen with Marriott's approach to..." or "Similar to what Hilton implemented..."), your article shouldn't read like an advertisement or endorsement.

What's acceptable:

What's not acceptable:

Your article should meet high standards for writing quality, research, and argumentation.

Articles should be well-organized with a clear thesis or main point. Use headings, paragraphs, and formatting in the rich text editor to make your article easy to read and navigate.

Write in a professional yet accessible tone that resonates with hospitality professionals at all levels. You can be authoritative without being academic, conversational without being casual.

Most opinion articles run 800-1,200 words, but we'll consider submissions of any length. If your topic needs more space to explore properly, use it. If you can make your point effectively in fewer words, that works too.

When citing data, publications, or external sources, provide proper attribution. Use the link tool in the rich text editor to reference your sources directly. This helps readers verify information independently and supports the credibility of your arguments.

Write with ethical considerations in mind, treating all subjects with fairness and respect.

Your article must not include:

We encourage you to uphold the dignity of all individuals and groups, and to promote inclusivity in your discussions.

Your author profile establishes your credentials and expertise. Make sure your bio, job title, and organization information are accurate and up-to-date, as this transparency fosters trust with our readership.

If you're writing on behalf of your organization, that's fine—just make it clear in your bio or article introduction.

All content you submit must be genuinely written by you as the named author, or you must have explicit permission and rights to publish it on behalf of the actual author.

This means:

What's not acceptable:

Using AI tools to help draft, refine, or improve your article is fine—many authors do. What matters is that you take responsibility for the content published under your name and ensure it reflects your genuine perspective and expertise.

We strongly prefer original content that hasn't been published elsewhere prior to submission to Hospitality Net. If your article has appeared on another platform, please let us know in your submission.

By submitting content through the dashboard, you automatically grant Hospitality Net a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, publish, distribute, and display your content across our platforms.

This license includes the right to make minor edits to ensure compatibility with our editorial guidelines and enhance readability, without materially changing your original intent.

You confirm that you have the right to grant this license and that your submission doesn't infringe on the rights of any third parties, including rights to images, videos, or other creative content you include.

We recommend including a hero image for your article. The dashboard will guide you through uploading and cropping your image to ensure it displays properly across all devices.

Technical specifications:

You must own or have explicit permission to use any images you upload. Add proper credits in the image source field if required.

You can insert additional images within your article using the image tool in the rich text editor. The same requirements apply: you must have rights to use the images, and they should be at least 800 pixels wide for best quality.

Upload a high-quality professional headshot when setting up your author profile. We prefer images of at least 250×250 pixels with good lighting and a neutral background.

Your headshot appears on your author profile and alongside your published articles, so choose a photo that represents you professionally.

We strongly encourage you to submit opinion articles through the dashboard. This gives you full control over your content, author profile, and publication settings.

Benefits of using the dashboard:

See our How to Publish an Opinion Article guide for complete instructions.

If you prefer, you can still submit articles by email to [email protected].

Please include:

Note that email submissions take longer to process and don't give you the same control over formatting and presentation.

Hospitality Net reserves the right to refuse publication of any submitted content or to remove content already published on our platforms.

This decision may be made at any time, without providing a reason, particularly when content:

We're not obligated to provide feedback or enter into correspondence regarding decisions to refuse or remove content.

These guidelines may be updated periodically to respond to emerging trends and standards in publishing and the hospitality industry. We encourage you to review them before each submission to ensure compliance with current standards.