Insights
Essays and conversations on hospitality systems, sourcing, operations, sustainability and regenerative practice.
Published essays
Writing on hospitality as a connected system
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Survival of the Kindest: What Evolution Actually Says About Working Together
How cooperation shaped evolution and why the systems built around competition alone are beginning to show their limits.
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The Science of Awe: Why Hospitality Has Always Been in the Awe Business
What Dacher Keltner’s research reveals about encounters with vastness and the experiences guests remember.
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Why Hotels Are Becoming Consciousness Spaces: What AI Can Never Provide
What Michael Pollan’s work on consciousness reveals about human hospitality and where technology will always fall short.
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The Gap Between the Bottle and the Beach
What Singapore’s deposit return scheme and The Ocean Cleanup reveal about infrastructure, governance and ocean plastic.
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The Hotel as an Operating System
Why hotel commitments fail when commercial decisions, supply networks and daily operations are treated separately.
Research Library
Long-form thinking, published here first
From The Current
Intelligence briefs and shorter pieces
25 April 2026
The Current — 25 April 2026
Daily intelligence from the intersection of hospitality and living systems
Read article →23 April 2026
The Current · 24 April 2026
Daily intelligence from the intersection of hospitality and living systems
Read article →23 April 2026
The Current · 23 April 2026
Daily intelligence from the intersection of hospitality and living systems
Read article →14 April 2026
Survival of the Kindest — What Evolution Actually Says About Working Together
Darwin didn't coin "survival of the fittest." Herbert Spencer did. The difference isn't semantic — we built an entire economic system on the wrong version, and the cracks are showing.
Read article →9 April 2026
The Science of Awe — And Why Hospitality Has Always Been in the Awe Business
Dr Dacher Keltner has spent twenty years studying awe. What he found explains why the best hospitality experiences don't just delight guests — they change them.
Read article →7 April 2026
Why Hotels Are Becoming Consciousness Spaces — And What AI Can Never Provide
What Michael Pollan's new book on consciousness reveals about the irreducible value of real hospitality — and where technology will always fall short.
Read article →4 April 2026
The Egg on the Table
Why your Easter eggs are shrinkflating, what they should really cost, and what the chocolate supply chain reveals about the systems we depend on
Read article →1 April 2026
The Gap Between the Bottle and the Beach
Singapore's deposit return scheme launched the same day Boyan Slat showed a room what 1.4 million kilograms of river trash looks like. What sits between them is the harder question.
Read article →16 March 2026
The Hotel as an Operating System
What two days in Singapore exposed about the forces converging on hospitality, and why the industry’s response will define the next decade
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Conversations on systems, supply chains, and place
- Listen →PodcastHastings People · Back of House · Ep. 68
Hospitality Beyond the Buzzwords
Regenerative tourism, local ecosystems, and the operational moves that take hotels past sustainability theatre.
Listen → - Watch →TalkAlterCOP
Getting the Balance Right
Environmental ambition only works when it is grounded in culture, consultation, and the realities of place.
Watch → - Watch →VideoAlterCOP
How to Improve Regenerative Tourism
Practical levers for moving tourism from extraction to regeneration across operators, destinations, and policy.
Watch → - Watch →TalkAlterCOP
How Can Sustainable Agriculture Secure Our Food Supply?
Food systems, hospitality procurement, and the supply-chain choices that determine long-term resilience.
Watch → - Watch →VideoYouTube Feature
Regenerative Hospitality & Systems Change
Reframing hotels as living systems: and the leadership shifts required to make sustainability operational.
Watch → - Watch →VideoCrescentRating · Halal In Travel Summit 2024
Halal & Sustainability: Breaking Stereotypes
Halal travel and sustainability share more common ground than the industry often assumes.
Watch → - Watch →VideoABC Science
The Science of the Perfect Drink
Craft, ingredients, and the science behind beverage experience: detail that turns service into ritual.
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Andrew Cameron
Founder, Enzyme Consulting
Certificate of Recognition as a Regenerative Practitioner · Former Global Sustainability Project Director, Accor · PhD candidate, James Cook University
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