Stay Hosted — The Hotel Partnership Playbook

Turn a beautiful stay into a story a hotel can use.

Stay Hosted brings the family-travel storytelling behind Tia on the Sea and Fishing Anonymous into a practical hotel-partnership course and creator toolkit. Learn to pitch a thoughtful offer, plan the shots before check-in, and bring the experience to life in CapCut.

$55 once. A self-paced written digital course with downloadable PDF guides, editable Word files and a fillable workbook.

Real stays. Useful creative lessons.

Explore Tia’s public work from Terramor near Acadia, Hotel Zamora, Westgate River Ranch, Hilton Fort Lauderdale Marina, St. Pete, Crystal River, Savannah and the mountains. Study how an arrival becomes a hook, a property becomes the base for an adventure, and a useful detail helps another traveler picture the stay.

Explore the real travel stories and preview the course →

Your complete creator toolkit

• Eight practical course modules: position, plan, build the shot list, capture, edit, publish, pitch, and deliver.
• Start Here guide: a seven-day action path with clear next steps.
• Studio Manual: the full workflow from creator positioning to the next partnership conversation.
• Field Workbook: 25 worksheet sections for your media kit, research, outreach, scope, production, delivery and reporting.
• Fillable PDF workbook: 123 fields to turn advice into your own working plan.
• 31 customizable email and DM templates: outreach, follow-up, negotiation, logistics, delivery, reporting and renewal.
• 40-shot hotel planner: a complete numbered coverage checklist with room for your scene plan and notes.
• CapCut storytelling guidance: organize the footage, build the silent story, add captions and licensed sound, then check the export.

The story starts before you arrive.

Before the stay: choose the traveler, property promise and angle. Plan the light, access, scenes, permissions and backup.

On location: capture pristine rooms, useful details, transitions, real human moments and clean endings.

Inside the edit: build the hook, context, proof and payoff. Adapt the story for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest and the other channels that fit your plan.

After delivery: organize the files, document usage rights, report useful results and follow up professionally.

Built for your first pitch and your next partnership

New creators get clear instructions and finish lines. Experienced creators can go straight to the production brief, scope and rights checklist, shot planner, delivery structure and renewal templates.

What happens after purchase?

Shopify Digital Products provides the download after successful payment. Save the ZIP, unzip it and open START_HERE_STUDENT. Keep a local backup; the download limit is five. Use a PDF app that supports form fields for the fillable workbook; mobile support varies.

This is a written digital course, not a video lesson library or coaching program. Private online portal access and software subscriptions are not included.

Clear expectations: No course can guarantee a hotel response, hosted stay, income, audience growth or specific result. Hosted partnerships involve work and agreed deliverables; taxes, resort fees, travel and other expenses may still apply. Confirm scope, permissions, expenses and rights in writing.

The linked trips are real public creative work, not a claim that every stay was hosted or that featured hotels endorse this course. The templates are authored teaching resources, not copies of Tia’s private correspondence or contracts.