Top 10 Most Popular Skift Stories of 2017

Skift Take
These 10 Skift stories got the most clicks in 2017, and none were clickbait. The list shows Skift readers love hotel and online travel stories, original reporting, analysis and breaking news.
While it doesn't necessarily take a rocket scientist to decipher the distinctions among Marriott's 30 hotel brands, it may indeed take a Tesla engineer, and perhaps that's why our story, Every One of Marriott's 30 Hotel Brands, Explained was the most popular news story on Skift in 2017.
It seems there is ongoing interest among travel industry wags, supertravelers and once-a-year vacationers in figuring out the globe's largest hotel brand or, we should say, its 30 brands.
We took a look at the Top 10 most popular stories on Skift in 2017, and you can view our list below. We are proud to say that although these 10 stories got the most clicks, none of them