Our Story – Storied Hotels

Inspiring curious travelers to discover, explore and experience the rich history, cultural connections and true essence of the world’s most storied hotels and destinations.

Stories for the Curious Traveler

Storied Hotels is a multi-platform media and marketing brand that informs, entertains, and engages curious travelers with premium story-driven creative and content that brings to life the stories that define and live between the walls and in the lobbies, lounges, and rooms of the world’s most Storied Hotels.

Storytellers-in-Residence

Our global network of Storytellers-in-Residence, including writers, filmmakers, photographers, podcasters, and other creators go beyond the front desk to discover, explore and capture the history of our featured hotels, from their history, architecture and design, glitz and glamour, scandals and affairs, celebrity connections, uninvited guests, and other defining moments.

Mutli-platform Distribution

Whether it’s a long form editorial feature article, digital series, documentary, short film, podcast, coffee table book, or magazine, curious travelers, hotel lovers, and history buffs engage with our content through multiple formats and platforms. In turn, they stay, explore, and book at our featured hotels to experience it and to make stories of their own.

A Storyteller's Playground

We believe that every hotel, historical or not, is a set, a stage, and a character within itself. A never-ending live-theater performance with unfolding scenes. From overnight guests to drop-in visitors to hotel associates, the panoply of people occupying a hotel at any given moment creates the ultimate improv performance. Characters from different walks of life, religions, and political persuasions change the storyline every single day. We tell their stories.

Refine Your Narrative, Define Your Stories

The Storied Hotels Studio partners with hotels and hospitality brands to develop, produce, and distribute premium story-driven creative and content that engages curious travelers.

Our 3C strategy puts the traveler/consumer at the middle to develop content that builds communities that drive commerce. Every content package connects content to commerce and delivers heads in beds.

The team also offers one-on-one, digital training, and on-site training workshops that transform associates into storytellers themselves.

Led by Storytellers and Hotel Marketers

Storied Hotels was founded by Emmy, Cannes Lion, and James Beard Award Winning Producer, Media Executive, and Brand Storyteller David Beebe, who most recently was the first ever Vice President of Global & Creative and Content Marketing for Marriott International.

Beebe, who AdWeek named a "Branded Content Master Who Makes it OK to Love Marketing," created the Marriott Content Studio, Marriott’s Global Social Media Command Centers, and Marriott Traveler while overseeing consumer-facing creative and content for Marriott's portfolio of brands.

Beebe was the Executive Producer and led creative development, production, and distribution strategy for premium content productions including scripted films like Two Bellmen One, Two Bellmen Two, Two Bellmen Three, Business Unusual, French Kiss, and The Other End of The World as well as unscripted content including Hotel Countdown, Do No Disturb and Open Invitation, as well as campaigns content like Book Direct.

Prior to Marriott, Beebe founded and led the Disney/ABC Television Group Content Studio as their first ever VP for seven years, and produced content for Showtime, DIRECTV, Yahoo Screen! and PBS.

Combining his experience as a Hollywood Producer and Hospitality Brand Marketer with his passion for hospitality and travel, Beebe founded Storied Hotels, a Storified Hospitality Group, Inc company.