Graduate Hotels brand has been named one of Fast Company’s "The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies" in 2018 and the second most innovative company in Travel. Graduate is looking to open 25 outposts by 2020, with a goal of hitting 100 markets in the next decade. Georgia's own Graduate Athens (John Huntsman, director of sales, and Sharon Hopkins, sales manager) served as a host hotel for the 2016 GSAE Annual Meeting. Read the full announcement here.