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The Hospitality Harbor
From kitchen tables to cabinet meetings, The Hospitality Harbor Podcast explores the powerful intersection between the global hospitality industry and the political decisions that shape its future. Each week, we break down the headlines—from tipping laws to immigration reform, tourism bans to trade deals—exploring how policies affect real people in hotels, restaurants, travel, and tourism.
The Hospitality Harbor
Racism In The Hospitality Industry
The hospitality industry has long been intertwined with a colonial structure of labor, one that draws heavily upon histories of servitude and racialized exploitation. Though hospitality markets itself as a sanctuary of rest and indulgence, the experience becomes a negotiation when your mere existence is viewed through suspicion. This selective hospitality strips away the promise of comfort, transforming it into a form of conditional privilege that could be revoked at any moment if gratitude for merely being allowed in falters.