Sarah Enelow-Snyder

These are the digital trends we were talking about this week.

These are the tourism trends we were talking about this week.

These are the hospitality trends we were talking about this week.

Humanity is our focal point for 2017. As much as we love travel tech, which is crucial to the industry's evolution, human beings will have to remain front-and-center as well.

The way the travel industry speaks to women is about to change. Pink-tinted products make it obvious that a company is targeting women, but these tokens don’t significantly improve the travel experience. Female leadership in travel companies is the next, deeper level of serving female travelers.

These are the tourism trends we were talking about this week.

These are the digital trends we were talking about this week.

These are the hospitality trends we were talking about this week.

These are the aviation trends we were talking about this week.

Every winter we get the best travel porn of the year: the ubiquitous Where-to-Go-This-Year lists, filled with panoramic photography and sexy descriptions of the destinations that made the cut. Then after the excitement of the big reveal wears off, the supertravelers start arguing about how such-and-such place could possibly be ranked number one, or left off the list completely. Here's a look into the thankless editorial process of creating those lists.