Terence Baker is news editor, Europe, Middle East and Africa, at Hotel News Now, part of STR, the hotel analytics division of CoStar and which provides premium data benchmarking, analytics and marketplace insights for the global hospitality industry. Baker lives in London, and he spent 20 years living and writing in New York City. He has covered the hotel and travel world since 1996. His free time is spent travelling, running distance races and searching for rare species of birds … sometimes all three things at the same time.