Skift's top 5 smart travel reads of summer of 2013

Skift is 11 months old, and since we launched we have learned a lot about the travel industry, its breadth and its scope as the world's largest sector. Our coverage has reflected our learning process, connecting the dots across giant landscapes in every sense of that phrase, to show and hopefully be useful to the executives working in this vast and creative industry. Part of that process has been to step back from time to time and go deeper to learn from books -- and their authors who have dug in -- that go beyond the usual confines of daily and feature coverage. This year we here at Skift have been engrossed in these five recent books, which we think have made