Sarah Enelow-Snyder

This week in digital news, we got futuristic. Facial recognition is changing events, and biometrics is altering airport security, but both scenarios raise privacy concerns.

This week in hospitality, we looked at nontraditional spaces. The short-term rental ban affecting Airbnb in Berlin seems less strict now, and top hotel designers squeeze style into micro-hotels.

This week in aviation, once airlines started recovering from Hurricane Irma, we examined basic economy. United Airlines was pushing the ultra-low fares hard, but is now easing up.

Amtrak's new videos speak the truth about the easy comfort of train travel, while flying basic economy is rife with pain points. But how many flyers will become rail-converts for the comfort?

Skift Global Forum is four years old, and now it's a non-negotiable calendar appointment for serious travel companies.

This week in digital news, we held a conference call in which our journalists and researchers explained the change of power at Expedia. Speaking of online travel agencies, Trivago bought too many ads and Hipmunk got deeper into corporate travel.

This week in aviation, basic economy rears its ugly yet attractive head. Legacy carriers are lowering fares to compete with low-cost carriers, which makes flyers happy, but investors not so much.

This week in hospitality, HotelTonight learned that the last-minute market might be too small, and century-old Taj Hotels has a new CEO.

This week in tourism, we stepped back for a broad view. We examined what "luxury" and "rich" actually mean nowadays, and reviewed the Black Travel Movement over the past year.

This week in hospitality, we looked outside the box at other sectors. Some hotels mimic airlines when structuring their fees and West Elm Hotels is hooking up with Williams-Sonoma.