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Pandemic Postcards to Places Solo Travelers Miss

Pandemic Postcards to Places Solo Travelers Miss

We know that women – the key decision-makers in travel – will shape its future. Our choices, our demands, where we put our dollars will influence how the industry rebuilds and reinvents itself. JourneyWomen pen postcards to places they plan to revisit post-pandemic.

9 Simple Rules For Women to Financially Safeguard your Future Travels

9 Simple Rules For Women to Financially Safeguard your Future Travels

Most savvy travellers understand how to save for and fund their travels. Most buy travel insurance. But there are more financial considerations and implications to travel than paying for your trip and purchasing insurance to cover it. Things most of us never truly think about.

Women Share the People Who Inspired Them to Travel Solo

Women Share the People Who Inspired Them to Travel Solo

Ask any traveller who or what first inspired her to travel, and the answer will bubble up in her unbidden. This month, three globetrotting JourneyWomen – Brenda, Karen and Sue – divulge their earliest travel inspirations, and the impact that travel has had on their lives and adventures

The Long Game: Limbering up for Solo Travel

The Long Game: Limbering up for Solo Travel

Working from home and restricting movement poses risks to our health, regardless of whether we’ve experienced injuries before or not. We turned to health and wellness expert and JourneyWoman Women’s Travel Advisory Council member Dr. Nekessa Remy for some insights and tips to get us ready for the day we can pack our bags and get travelling again.

Solo Travel Memoirs: Marion’s Indomitable Spirit

Solo Travel Memoirs: Marion’s Indomitable Spirit

A seasoned solo traveller shares her earliest travel inspirations, youthful escapades, how to stay independent when travelling as a couple, and finding hope through travel after being widowed.

How JourneyWomen Connect to the World Through Music

How JourneyWomen Connect to the World Through Music

The music we experience while travelling touches us on a deeper level. It transports us to a higher plane of being – one where all of our manmade worldly divides fade away and we tap into the ancient drumbeat that connects and moves us all. Feel the beat?

Women travellers on flying in the COVID Era

Women travellers on flying in the COVID Era

Air travel isn’t what it used to be. Neither are we as travellers. Read on for a summary of experiences and some confidence-boosting recommendations from seasoned women travellers for airports and airlines.