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.
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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.
A Journey Through My Grandmother’s 1939 Travel Diaries
When Marillee Carroll discovers her grandmother’s travel diaries from 1939, she learns first-hand about her independent and courageous spirit.
Women’s Travel Inspiration: Karen Discovers South Korea
Karen was 12 when her father came homunced that the family would be moving to South Korea for his job. A year later, Karen’s family was packed up and on their way.
Solo Travel Memoirs: Sue Finds Family in Brazil
A summer in Brazil changed Sue’s life forever, teaching her about courage and taking risks.
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
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
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.
Age-Defying Travel Adventures: Age is Just a Number, Say These Older Women
Women solo travellers share their most inspiring and age-defying travel adventures, showing that age is just a number!
A Cautionary Tale: Women Who Never Leave Home Without Travel Insurance
Why do women buy travel insurance? If the cost of travel insurance gives you heartburn, consider these cautionary tales.
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?
Travel at Home During the Pandemic: 10 Things We Learned
When we hatched a plan to travel at home in Ontario, we never expected to learn so much about nature, community and our inner child.
How Curiosity Inspired A Lifetime of Solo Travel
Retired teacher Marillee Carroll uses curiosity as her compass to discover knowledge, people, and experiences on her travels.
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.
Adventures in Ontario’s Bruce Peninsula: A Road Trip for Active Women
A road trip to the Grotto, in Tobermory’s Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, teaches valuable lessons about curiosity and travel at home.