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Newsletter features member profiles, “Ask JourneyWoman” and practical tips from women 50+
For the first time in its 30+year history, JourneyWoman is launching a new, subscription newsletter with curated travel tips. Smitten by JourneyWoman will include curated first-hand tips, recommendations and inspiring profiles of JourneyWoman members. It will be issued twice a month on Monday mornings to get your week off to a great start. This will complement the monthly JourneyWoman Magazine, which features inspiring travel stories written by experienced travel writers.
“In our December 2024 reader survey, the overwhelming majority of women said that their travel decisions are inspired by trusted women’s blogs and websites,” said Carolyn Ray, CEO and Editor, JourneyWoman CEO. “Smitten is designed to curate the best of JourneyWoman’s cumulative wisdom, featuring our inspiring readers in a new “member profile” series, first-hand solo travel tips and helping women step into the next phase of their lives with confidence. We’re inviting all women to support us by subscribing and participating by sharing their stories, advice and asking questions.”
Launching in early February 2025, Smitten is a subscription-only newsletter, offered through email only. By subscribing, women can help support JourneyWoman’s female writers and team working behind the scenes who manage our website, newsletters and our Women’s Travel Directory. Your support also validates our decision NOT to follow the traditional business model of distracting pop-up advertising on our site, erecting paywalls and restricting content that helps women travel safely. As always, all women around the world have complimentary access to our full website, monthly JourneyWoman Magazine, webinars, book club and private Solo Travel Wisdom Facebook group.
Help support our efforts to inspire women to embrace solo travel by subscribing to this new newsletter here. For just C$5/US$3 a month or C$60/US$42 a year for 24 issues, we’ll send you first-hand tips and advice on alternate Mondays. You’ll receive this email twice a month, and can even be featured in it. Use our discount code ILOVEJW for a 10% discount today (valid for two months). Subscribe now!
Help us create Smitten!
There are three ways you can participate and help us create Smitten, and share more wisdom that inspires women to travel solo!
1. Share your story in Smitten!
We’re looking for inspiring women over 50 to profile in Smitten. Share your story here, along with a photograph, and you could be featured in Smitten or our editorial. Click here to do that!
2. “Ask JourneyWoman” advice column
Have a question about solo travel? Send in a question and one of our Women’s Advisory Council members will respond to you. We’ll publish your question and our response in an upcoming issue. Click here to do that!
3. Share a treasured travel tip
For decades, JourneyWoman has shared first-hand travel tips from women. We regularly publish these on our website and are now curating your most beloved tips into Smitten. Click here to do that!
“Every day, I receive emails from women who tell me they are seeking an infusion of positivity, who dream of freedom, and look to us to find the courage to follow their dreams,” says Carolyn Ray. “Every day, I feel fulfilled by the kind and generous conversations that happen on our Facebook group, where I see women connecting with women. Every day, I witness the ways in which women support women, as we strive for a more accessible and inclusive world. I know that what we do really matters!”
About JourneyWoman
Founded in 1994, JourneyWoman™ is the world’s first solo female travel resource and one of the most trusted women’s travel brands in the world. Named the “Travel Blog of the Year” by the Travel Bloggers Exchange (TBEX), JourneyWoman also hosts the world’s largest Women’s Travel Directory as a free service to women, providing hundreds of curated and vetted women-friendly tours, retreats, small ships and safe places to stay while supporting small tourism businesses around the world. To elevate women’s voices, JourneyWoman launched the travel industry’s first Women’s Speaker’s Bureau to share wisdom from women over 50, supports th award-winning Soul of Travel Podcast and the JourneyWoman Awards for Women Over 50. To learn more, visit Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn. JourneyWoman is a registered trademark of Journeywoman Enterprises Inc.
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Carolyn Ray
In 2023, Carolyn was named one of the most influential women in travel by TravelPulse for her work advocating for women over 50 in travel. She has been featured in the New York Times, Toronto Star and Conde Naste as a solo travel expert, and speaks at women's travel conferences around the world. She leads JourneyWoman's team of writers and chairs the JourneyWoman Women's Advisory Council, JourneyWoman Awards for Women 50+ and the Women's Speaker's Bureau. She is the chair of the Canadian chapter of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW), board member for the Cultural Heritage Economic Alliance (CHEA) in support of Black and Brown businesses, a member of Women's Travel Leaders and a Herald for the Transformational Travel Council (TTC). Sometimes she sleeps. A bit.
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