TEAM
KATE COLLEY
PRINCIPAL
Kate Colley is a PR expert specializing in the lifestyle sector, with extensive experience supporting luxury hotels, wineries, destinations, and restaurants. Her background includes ten years as Director of Communications for Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver, Four Seasons Resort Whistler, and five as media relations lead for Arterra’s VQA Western Estates.
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Kate’s passion for developing destinations began early in her career, leading Tourism Vancouver’s media relations department, where she helped establish Canada’s largest and most successful dining festival, now in its 22nd year.
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Her Okanagan experience is significant. In 2020, Kate spearheaded the revitalization of the historic Naramata Inn, transforming it into a must-visit destination while serving as President of Discover Naramata. Since 2022, her firm has provided marketing communications for the Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association and led crisis communications for the BC Regional Secretariat, ensuring destinations are prepared for climate-related crises.
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Kate splits her time between Vancouver and Naramata.
A hospitality and tourism MVP, Krista Lochhead has been closely involved with every client, project, paragraph of fine print and challenging task at Hatch Hospitality for nearly a decade. From Four Seasons Vancouver and Whistler, to highlighting the very best of B.C. wines, launching a ski resort DMO, Chef Ned’s next-level Dinner in the Sky, Ocean Wise, and Vancouver Club ventures, as well as Naramata Inn and a variety of ambitious lifestyle projects.
Her global travels and first-hand experiences — seeing the Moais of Easter Island, dipping in the Blue Lagoon in Iceland, taking in the history and beauty of Sweden, visiting cultures a world away in South Africa, and one epic summer that took her from China through Southeast Asia to Australia — inform her perspective on global tourism products, travel trends, and expertise about the international travel market. Proactive, fun, kind and energetic, Krista brings creativity, organization and lots of special sauce.
KRISTA LOCHHEAD
ACCOUNT DIRECTOR AND DIGITAL SPECIALIST