Hospitality Market Sector Outlook 2026: Guest Experience, Brand Strategy & Design Trends

Summary

Join Architectural Products, Building Design+Construction, BUILDINGS, and interiors+sources for a live, cross-brand editorial webinar on the key trends and innovations shaping the U.S. commercial hospitality market.

A panel of hospitality architecture and design experts will share their market insights, including development activity, renovation and repositioning trends, investment considerations, and other forecast indicators, along with the evolving design priorities influencing hotels, resorts, and hospitality-driven mixed-use environments. Presenters will spotlight real-world examples from their own work across a variety of project types from lifestyle and boutique hotels, luxury and select-service properties, to food-and-beverage destinations and other experience-driven hospitality settings.

The session will conclude with 5–10 minutes of live audience Q&A. The webinar will be recorded for on-demand viewing on our Architecture+Design Master continuing education platform and will be submitted to the AIA for CEU credit.

Meet The Experts

Bio

Based in Princeton, NJ, Joshua Zinder is founder of integrated design firm JZA+D and Judaic specialty design firm Landau|Zinder Architecture. During his prolific career he has overseen his firm building a global portfolio of hospitality projects from New Jersey to Las Vegas to Singapore, as well as projects spanning the residential, commercial, workplace, academic, civic, retail, and worship sectors. A past-president (2021) of AIA New Jersey, he serves on the Executive Board of the AIA’s National Small Firms Exchange, and on the Interfaith Design Knowledge Community committee. More recently Zinder has taken on development as a sideline, making his firm a co-investor in several of the projects he has designed.

Bio

Juliet Hernandez-Eli is principal of Hernandez-Eli Architecture, the design firm dedicated to architecture and the built environment as transformative works of art and catalysts for cultural and socioeconomic progress, which she founded in 2017. Her work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Boston Architecture Magazine as well as books by Princeton Architecture Press and Actar Publishing. Hernandez-Eli is a registered architect in the states of New York and Connecticut who has taught at Harvard University, Pratt Institute, and Boston Architectural College, and served as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at UC Berkeley. She earned her B.A. in Architecture from Princeton University, and a Master in Architecture from Harvard.

Bio

Jeffrey Teuton, Director of Interior Design at Ideation Design Group (IDG), has an unapologetic motto: “Be Bold or Go Home.” Guided by this, he brings wit, irreverence, and heart to every project. An architecture student turned art devotee, Jeffrey’s career began in New York City’s high-end residential scene before his observation of bars and nightlife led him to design restaurants, hotels, and lounges in a storytelling fashion. At IDG, his portfolio spans award-winning concepts like The Mexicano, recipient of the 2022 NEWH Best Restaurant Award, to daring prototypes and boutique hotels. His spaces are known for their unexpected details: an 80-inch peacock, a swordfish wearing a cowboy hat—always something extraordinary. Jeffrey believes luxury is an attitude, not a price point, and that design should be approachable, fun, and a bit audacious. His IDG office is filled with quirky treasures reflecting this same philosophy: creativity thrives in joyful chaos.

Moderator

Bio

Robert Nieminen is the Market Content Director of Architectural Products, BUILDINGS, and interiors+sources magazines and Smart Buildings Technology Report e-newsletter for Endeavor Business Media. Previously, he was the Editor-in-Chief of interiors+sources, and the Editor-at-Large for retrofit, Retail Environments, The Architect’s Newspaper, and i+D, the official publication of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). His work has been recognized with multiple Azbee Award Gold distinctions from the Association for Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) and Folio magazine’s Eddie & Ozzie Awards.

This free one-hour webinar will be available for on-demand viewing on the Architecture+Design Master continuing education platform following the event.

Learning Objectives:

Evaluate current U.S. hospitality-sector market signals and explain how they are influencing development, renovation, and repositioning priorities.
Identify emerging hospitality design strategies that support guest comfort, wellness, operational performance, and memorable brand experiences.
Compare planning and design approaches for key hospitality environments, including guestrooms, amenity spaces, food-and-beverage venues, and adaptive reuse projects.
Apply best practices for creating hospitality spaces that balance aesthetics, flexibility, durability, and long-term value using case-study examples shared by presenters.

Summary

Meet The Experts

Joshua Zinder

Juliet Hernandez-Eli

Jeffrey Teuton

Moderator

Robert Nieminen

Registration

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