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Welcome to Sojourn’s Collection Of
HERITAGE ACCOMMODATIONS
Congratulations!!!
Congrats to the Sojourn Heritage Brand
for being considered as a”Future of Tourism” in NEWSWEEK
Our Mission:
To create a unique brand of boutique hotels focused on the history, culture, and heritage in the communities where they are located.
Our Why
To share the rich history of African Americans across the country through art, jazz, wine, and food in a uniquely diverse hospitality setting.
To foster a strong sense of community by partnering with or creating new businesses from within the communities and showcasing those businesses to the world to help stimulate their growth.
Sojourn commits to creating or empowering at least 10 businesses within the community to serve as our partners and vendors.
Our Vision
Our vision is to create a unique brand of Boutique Hotels that will capture and keep pace with the world’s fastest-growing segment of the tourism market, “Heritage Tourism.”
Our Culture
By bringing African American history and culture alive in cities all across the United States and abroad, we will create a brand that combines the amenities of a first-class hotel and the intimacies of a bed and breakfast.
Our History
This “Breakfast Table” experience model encourages people from various races, genders, and cultures to come together and share their lives with one another.
Our Hotels
Why Urban Communities
Gentrification of the inner cities across the country must include the black community in its redevelopment plan. Our goal is to work with developers to be a forerunner in community tourism to ensure that this happens.
We will work with city leaders and developers to create viable ways to shape the transformation of our communities through inclusion and economic opportunity.
Our Team
Kristin Kitchen
Founder & CEO
Kristin Kitchen, Founder and CEO of Sojourn Heritage Accommodations is embarking on a new way of doing business in the Heritage Tourism Industry. For the last 15 years, Kristin has been the owner and operator of the Six Acres Bed & Breakfast in Cincinnati, Ohio. Restoring this historic 6000-sq. ft. home that was once part of the Underground Railroad and turning it in to a successful business inspired Kristin to launch a new brand of boutique hotels that combine the intimacies of a bed and breakfast with the amenities of a 1st class hotel.
With a background in real- estate development, having owned and managed over 20 residential and commercial properties, Kristin has taken that knowledge along with her passion for entrepreneurship to the next level. By integrating a model that not only transforms blighted or underutilized historic structures in Urban communities into viable hotel lodging spaces but in doing so, helps to restore the community by creating or enhancing existing business from within the community to operate as vendors for the hotel. “We create jobs and entrepreneurs with in each community because our mission is to make our communities better and to empower the people that live there.”
“When we thrive, our community thrives.”
In 2014, she launched the Sojourn Heritage Hotel Brand, a new brand of hotels focused on African American History and Culture in urban areas, to share the history while uplifting the community.
The Sojourn Heritage Accommodations Hotel Group introduces the DUNNS JOSEPHINE HOTELto the South Florida travel destination community. The DUNNS JOSEPHINE is an amazing boutique hotel, located in the blossoming, cultural garden and entertainment mecca known as Historic Overtown. The hotel had it’s soft launch December 2019. The DUNNS JOSEPHINE HOTEL is an ode to both the Miami and Harlem Renaissance periods of glitz and old world glamour from days gone by. Staying true to theme, the DUNNS JOSEPHINE HOTEL boasts (15) guest rooms dedicated and decorated to the likes of Miami and Harlem Renaissance legends such as Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Cab Calloway, Marcus Garvey, and the iconic Duke Ellington and Billie Holliday.
As a historian and successful business woman Kristin has given lectures at various colleges and universities across the country and continues to do so. Kristin holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and a Masters in African American Studies.
Kristin lives in Miami Florida with her adorable, 8 year old daughter Zahri Jean.
Organizational Affiliations
Board Member: CEIA, Inc. -Community Economic Advancement Initiative, Inc.
Member: NABHOOD- National Association of Black Hotel Owners, Operators, and Developers
Member: Greater Miami Visitors and Convention Bureau
Member: Greater Miami Hotel and Beaches Association
Member: Miami Dade Chamber of Commerce
Member: ICABA- International Career and Business Alliance
Philanthropic Works
She is President of Good Deeds Mission, a non-profit 501c3 organization whose mission is to serve, assist with and fight for equality for urban communities around the issues of social, political and economic justice.
Kristin mentors at least 2 small business annually to support their road to success.
Developed a continued partnership with Cincinnati public schools to provide field trips at Six Acres to teach children about the underground railroad.
Metris Batts-Coley
Operations Assistant
Mrs. Batts-Coley earned an Associated Degree in Merchandise Buying, a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, and a Master’s degree in Organizational Behavior Management. From the best university in the world, Johnson &Wales University did her hospitality friends rub off on her? Her professional experience also includes helping small businesses and emerging nonprofits build their capacity to be sustainable.
With over 19 years of experience supervising and training staff, Ms. Batts-Coley has provided direct services, program planning and implementation, coalition development, and capacity building.
Mona Stephen
Interior Design Partner
Owner of M1One Design group based out of Atlanta, Mona has over 15 years experience in both residential and commercial properties.
Barron Channer
Development Consultant
As CEO of Bach Real Estate, Barron has a 10 years experience with complex real estate transactions including acquisitions, restructuring and development.
Our Expertise
- Historic Authenticity
- Preserve and Protect Resources
- Revitalize Historic Assets
- Create the relationships between Communities & Tourism
- Collaboration
- Hotel Development
- Historic Renovation Projects
Our Hotel Model
- Create a boutique hotel brand with 15-40 keys per unit in historic properties located in Urban Communities.
- Share the history and culture of the community combined with and as it relates to the national African American story.
- Open our Signature “Taste of Noir” wine shops brought to you by our black owned vintners.
Contact Us
Contact Us
513- 477-7781
