Sarah Enelow-Snyder

Business travelers and commuters may be Amtrak's bread and butter, but many leisure travelers have decades of warm feelings for its sleeper cars, and the old-fashioned hospitality they afford.

Even in 2018, many travel companies still hesitate to engage people of color through marketing. Those companies, which are leaving money on the table, could take a cue from Visit Philadelphia's long-running video series featuring a member of The Roots.

This week in hospitality, Marriott revealed a gargantuan security breach involving 500 million Starwood guests. And, as Airbnb continues on its path to going public, the company hired a longtime Amazon executive as its new chief financial officer.

This week in digital news, European Commission antitrust regulators are investigating the business practices of distribution-tech providers Amadeus and Sabre. We also have analysis on Marriott's massive data breach and the impending arrival of 5G.

This week in tourism, the UK and EU have a withdrawal agreement, but the UK parliament could vote it down. Meanwhile, as Europe faces overtourism issues, its travel commission adopts a value-based, not volume-based, approach for 2019.

This week in aviation: Indigo Partners, the private equity firm that controls Frontier Airlines, agreed in principle to invest in Iceland's ailing Wow Air. Back stateside, United Airlines is feeling confident about strong demand and lower fuel prices.

When minority business owners spoke up in New Orleans, the city’s tourism marketing corporation responded by admitting the oversight and hiring a diversity and inclusion consultant. Hopefully these measures will have a lasting impact.

This week in aviation, EasyJet is preparing for Brexit as actively and confidently as possible, and we take a look at what "premium economy" really means as class definitions evolve.

This week in tourism news, we have a long read about the development of art tourism on Japan's Naoshima Island, plus, international arrivals into the U.S. are expected to break a record in 2018.

This week in digital news, Booking.com is taking a slow, methodical approach to becoming a full-service online travel agency. Over in Indonesia, Grab establishes the first partnership of its kind between a national tourism body and a ridehailing platform.