Elevate Your Hospitality Excellence With Kennedy Training Network

Empower your team with cutting-edge strategies for hotel and lodging industry.

WHY KENNEDY TRAINING NETWORK

Best Source For Hotel
Training Programs

Based in the Atlanta Metro Area, KTN is the lodging industry’s best source for hotel training programs and supportive services in topic areas of hotel reservations sales, hospitality and guest service excellence, front desk hospitality certification, and hotel sales department training.

Industry-Leading Experience

Over three decades of specialized hospitality training.

Proven Success

Partnered with client companies to elevate service standards.

Customized Solutions

Tailored programs to meet your property's unique needs.

Featured Training Programs: What You’ll Learn

Services include on-site training workshops, private, live webcam training, telephone mystery shopping, and remote scoring of recorded calls and email exchanges.

Hotel Sales

The era of sales fishing (living off inbound leads) has ended. It’s time to embrace the new attitudes and habits that sales hunting requires. 

Hospitality Training

These workshop experiences help colleagues understand both why and how they need to make it an ordinary, daily occurrence for guests to experience extraordinary hospitality.

Hospitality Certification

Your front desk and guest experience colleagues truly are the “memory makers”.
Join over 8K+ others worldwide in becoming Certified in the Heart of Hospitality (CHH). 

Front Desk Upselling

Upselling can best be accomplished when welcoming front desk colleagues have authentic, human conversations.

This training course shows them how.

Reservation Sales

Get your team on a QUEST to be the best at converting today’s pre-informed callers, maximizing revenue-per-booking opportunities & many more.

About Doug Kennedy

KTN President Doug Kennedy is a well-known conference speaker and trainer for lodging and tourism industry associations, hotel brands, and hotel management companies.

Thousands worldwide read his monthly hotel, tourism, and hospitality industry training articles.

All KTN training is delivered by Doug Kennedy or one of KTN’s in-house training experts, each of whom has been personally trained and coached by Doug.

Over 92k people participated in small group workshops

2,720 on-site
training workshops

Trained in 19 countries and 49 US states

We Are The Lodging Industry’s Best Source For Hotel Training Programs

Read the latest reviews from our diverse client base. Contact us for references specific to your niche of the accommodations industry.

Upcoming Complimentary Webcasts

Hospitality

The “3Ms” of Hospitality Leadership: Model, Mentor, Measure
October 23, 2026
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET

Sales

Hotel Sales Leaders: Why Your Salespeople Don’t Close More Deals – And What To Do About It
November 20, 2026
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET

Reservations

Encourage “Quick Questions” and Train Your Team To Convert Them Into Direct Bookings
December 14, 2026
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET

Hospitality

The “3Ms” of Hospitality Leadership: Model, Mentor, Measure
October 23, 2026
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET

Sales

Hotel Sales Leaders: Why Your Salespeople Don’t Close More Deals – And What To Do About It
November 20, 2026
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET

Reservations

Encourage “Quick Questions” and Train Your Team To Convert Them Into Direct Bookings
December 14, 2026
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET

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Read our latest sales and hospitality training articles

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Expressing Empathy Truly Resolves Guest Complaints
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Train Your Team To Intentionally Communicate Hospitality Vibes
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Technification Is Accelerating Commoditization
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The Mystification of Hotel Sales

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Elevate Your Hospitality Excellence With Kennedy Training Network