05 Jan
Travel

What Have Hotels Done on Cybersecurity Since the Marriott Hack?

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The hotel industry is struggling to protect their guests from data breaches on their mobile devices. rh2010 / Adobe

Skift Take: Hotels are ripe for data breaches, with all the information guests provide them. The Marriott hack sounded a wake-up call when revealed last year. But hotels have been slow to come up with ways to protect their guests.

— Nancy Trejos

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05 Jan
Travel

A Bush Pilot Who Always Longs to Return to African Skies

Wilderness Air Botswana

A Cessna Caravan like bush pilot Kirsty Henderson flies over private reserve Linyanti in Botswana. Wilderness Air Botswana

Skift Take: Kirsty Henderson has arguably one of the coolest jobs in aviation: She’s a bush pilot, ferrying passengers across scenic African landscapes like Botswana. What’s more, she’s helping show aviation as a viable career path for young women.

— Colin Nagy

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05 Jan
Travel

New Santa Fe Museum Struggles With Displacing a Historic Chicano Mural

Morgan Lee / Associated Press

A piece of the “Multi-Cultural” mural whose creation was headed by artist Gilberto Guzman is seen in Santa Fe, N.M., on Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2019. The iconic Chicano mural painted by Mexican-American artists is scheduled for destruction in 2020 to make way for a new contemporary museum, generating a debate about gentrification and whose culture state and city officials are seeking to preserve. Morgan Lee / Associated Press

Skift Take: If this Chicano mural is going away, the new contemporary art museum had better not just preserve its memory but instead fill its halls with today’s Chicano artists, Native artists, and other underrepresented voices.

— Sarah Enelow-Snyder

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