Women in Travel

March 7, 2025March 10, 2025

Women in Travel 2025: Celebrating Leadership, Resilience, and Success

Honouring Leaders in Travel March 8th is a moment to not only reflect on progress but also to recognise the far-reaching impact of trailblazing individuals. International Women’s Day stands as ... Read more

October 26, 2022October 25, 2022

Airlines – it’s still a long climb for women in leadership positions

Aviation, Blog, Women in Travel

The airline industry is slowly beginning to recognise the need to improve its credentials with respect to diversity and inclusion and leading this effort is to reduce the disparity between ... Read more

September 21, 2022September 16, 2022

Burnout expert Kelly Swingler to speak at World Travel Market London

Press Releases, WTM London, WTM Portfolio

World-renowned executive coach, burnout expert, inspirational speaker and author, Kelly Swingler, will be sharing her experience on how to have a successful career without jeopardising wellbeing at this year’s World ... Read more

December 23, 2016January 26, 2017

Why Rooster PR is helping the Women in Travel Meetup

Women in Travel

Women make up a high percentage of the travel industry globally – somewhere between 50 and 80 percent; yet, there still seems to be a feeling that many women struggle ... Read more

October 31, 2016January 23, 2017

On role models, confidence and my next 20 years in the travel industry

Women in Travel

Today’s guest blogger is Rachel O’Reilly, Head of Communications for Kuoni UK. Rachel discusses the importance of the right role models and the opportunities she had working in the travel ... Read more

September 21, 2016January 23, 2017

Adventure and creativity can bring about positive social change

Women in Travel

My guest blogger this week is Natalia Komis founder of iamadventures. Natalia is an adventure maiden, artist and creative activator. Having gained a Fine Art Degree and studied Arts Therapy ... Read more

September 15, 2016January 23, 2017

All is revealed about the Women in Travel Meetup 2016!

Women in Travel

I am only too delighted that Summer is over and I am now back at my desk and not just because London is still basking in sunshine… but because today ... Read more

June 15, 2016January 23, 2017

What can you expect from the Women in Travel meetup at WTM London 2016?

Women in Travel

5 months to go and counting! As I look at the calendar I am thrilled about this third, forthcoming Women in Travel meetup 2016 but also know there is a ... Read more

March 16, 2016January 23, 2017

Celebrating International Women’s Day 2016: What Lessons for the Travel and Tourism Industry?

Women in Travel

As I prepare to launch the first ever Women in Travel meetup at the forthcoming Arabian Travel Market in just over a month, I reflect on the fact that only ... Read more

February 17, 2016January 23, 2017

The Leadership Revolution Starts With Us!

Women in Travel

There used to be a time when leadership was reserved to a handful of people. The CEOs, the MDs or Heads of… would be the only kind of people who ... Read more

January 20, 2016January 23, 2017

Go for it…Be an Action-Heroine in 2016!

Women in Travel

I know that we all like to set Resolutions at the beginning of a New Year, but I am sure most of you will agree that after some initial enthusiasm ... Read more

January 4, 2016January 23, 2017

3 Things I Have Learnt from Running Women Leaders Event

Women in Travel

Over the last year I have run several women leaders panels, whether as part of women in travel or more general ones. Needless to say on every occasion I experienced ... Read more

December 3, 2015January 23, 2017

Harnessing the Positive Power of Emotions

Women in Travel

When the curtain eventually drew on the Women in Travel event this month at World Travel Market the one thing that continued to linger on and was sensed again and ... Read more

November 23, 2015January 23, 2017

Inspirational Leadership Journeys from Women in Travel

Women in Travel

I cannot believe it is 3 weeks since that amazing day at Women in Travel 2015! The afternoon of mentoring, debates and presentation went flying past, but it left behind ... Read more

September 22, 2015February 2, 2017

WTM Women in Travel debuts first mentoring clinics

Press Releases, WTM London

World Travel Market London 2015, the leading global event for the travel industry, will introduce one-to-one mentoring clinics, as part of the WTM Women in Travel ‘meet-up’ event at ExCeL ... Read more

September 9, 2015January 23, 2017

Announcing the Fabulous Women in Travel Meet Up Line Up of Speakers and Mentors

Women in Travel

I am delighted this week to be able to announce the full line up of speakers and mentors for the forthcoming Women in Travel meet up at World Travel Market ... Read more

August 24, 2015January 23, 2017

How networking with likeminded women can support female empowerment in travel

Women in Travel

The Association of Women Travel Executives (AWTE) is delighted to be supporting the Women in Travel event at World Travel Market for the second year running. With a fantastic line ... Read more

July 29, 2015January 23, 2017

The important of resilience in business

Women in Travel

Carolyn Pearson, CEO of Maiden Voyage is my guest blogger this week. Carolyn will speak at the #WTM2015 #WomeninTravel meetup on the topic of resilience in business (‘Not for the ... Read more

July 20, 2015January 23, 2017

Adventuresses – celebrating amazing women travellers from the past

Women in Travel

My guest blogger this week is Jacki Hill Murphy who will be delivering the key note speech at the #WTM2015 WomeninTravel meet up. An explorer, traveller and film maker, here ... Read more

July 15, 2015January 23, 2017

University of Surrey support WTM Women in Travel

Women in Travel

This week’s guest blog is by Prof Graham Miller, director and Head of Surrey’s School of Hospitality and Tourism Management. We are delighted that the School has agreed to support ... Read more

July 8, 2015January 23, 2017

The Long Wait Is Over! Proud to announce the ‘WTM Women in Travel’ meetup 2015

Women in Travel

Finally the time has come! After many weeks of hard work I am now proud and delighted to announce that the 2015 WTM Women in Travel meetup programme is out…and we ... Read more

May 27, 2015January 23, 2017

Employment and Entrepreneurship: Still an Oxymoron?

Women in Travel

I must thank David Speakman, CEO of Travel Counsellors, for providing the inspiration for this blog. Only few days ago we were exchanging tweets and David said that the words ... Read more

April 29, 2015January 23, 2017

Creating secure education, training and employment opportunities for women and girls in the travel and tourism industry

Women in Travel

This week I have a guest blogger in Devika Jina Communications and Reporting Coordinator, Youth Career Initiative (YCI). YCI is an initiative of the International Tourism Partnership and Business in the Community and provides ... Read more

April 10, 2015January 23, 2017

7 Reasons why women who travel make better leaders

Women in Travel

I will unashamedly admit that what you are about to read is mostly NOT mine, but the summary of a longer article produced by brilliant adventure travel blogger duo @mappingmegan. I ... Read more

March 30, 2015January 23, 2017

Put Women at the Heart of Technology

Women in Travel

Did you watch Martha Lane Fox of LastMinute.com fame deliver the #Dimbleby Lecture on BBC1 last night? I am neither a technologist nor a digital entrepreneur; I use the Internet ... Read more

February 24, 2015January 23, 2017

Travel Industry: another case of ‘best and whitest’?

Women in Travel

If like me you have even vaguely followed the social media fun-fair caused by the Oscar ceremonies, it won’t have escaped you the fact this year a number of quasi ... Read more

February 6, 2015January 23, 2017

Why mentoring works (and why it is never too late to start)

Women in Travel

This week I attended a travel related networking event which was great fun and while I was chatting away and old acquaintance of mine stopped me and said something along ... Read more

January 27, 2015January 23, 2017

Do what you love and you will never work a day!

Women in Travel

Looking back at some of the earlier WTM blogs from Women in Travel it is really striking to see that the advice from successful women in the industry is to ... Read more

December 19, 2014January 23, 2017

Interview with Julia Feuell, Managing director of Online Travel Training and New Frontiers

Women in Travel

With 2014 almost behind us and 2015 beckoning this is a time for planning and for turning your ideas into reality! So what better way to gain some insights but ... Read more

November 14, 2014January 24, 2017

Inspirational. Authentic. Determined. These are Travel Women!

Women in Travel

Wow. I am just back from moderating an amazing session on ‘Secrets of successful female tra-preneurs’ as part of the new Women in Travel Programme at WTM and I am ... Read more

October 15, 2014January 24, 2017

Wellness is the New Black

Wellness

The ‘cultural cauldron of wellness’ that is destination, regional and global authenticity abound; is hotting up and spearheading a sea change in how wellness is understood, communicated, collaborated upon and ... Read more

October 6, 2014January 24, 2017

Women for Women International: Developing a Burgeoning Tourist Industry

Women in Travel

This week my guest blogger is Nora Russell, WTM Women in Travel panelist and Marketing Manager at Women for Women International an organisation dedicated to supporting women in countries affected ... Read more

September 16, 2014January 24, 2017

Pearls of trav-preneurship wisdom!

Women in Travel

As the (UK) Shine Awards night approaches on 16th September– in which women from across the hospitality, travel and tourism industry will be crowned as outstanding professionals, managers and business ... Read more

September 5, 2014January 24, 2017

Women, women everywhere

Women in Travel

As a long standing advocate for women in the sector (amongst other things, I co-launched the Shine Awards for Women Achievement in Travel Tourism, Events and Hospitality in 2004 now ... Read more