Last updated on March 7th, 2024
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What Solo Women Travellers Over 50 Want in 2025
Solo travel is a movement, particularly among older women, who are empowered, purposeful and have the mindset, time and money to travel.
Giving Tuesday 2024: Causes That Lift Up Women Around the World
For Giving Tuesday 2024, we focus on causes that help lift women’s voices around the world, including Malala Fund and more.
Curious Where Travel Writers Spend the Holidays? Less-Travelled Places to Add to Your List
Have you ever wondered where travel writers spend the holidays? The JourneyWoman writing team shares less-travelled places to add to your list.
Planning for a Northern Lights Expedition in Norway: Hotels, Apps and Packing
Travel tips for JourneyWoman’s Northern Lights trip with Hurtigruten to Norway, which may just become an annual adventure.
When Something Goes Wrong: What to Do if You’re Injured While Travelling
Anything can happen on a vacation. Here are some first-hand tips for women to plan for an unexpected injury.
Announcing our 2024 JourneyWoman Award Winners: Inspiring Solo Women and Entrepreneurs Over 50
Featured image: The JourneyWoman Awards celebrate women over 50 changing the travel industry for the better | Photo by SabrinaBracher on Envato Celebrate our inaugural award winners JourneyWoman has announced the inaugural recipients of the 2024 JourneyWoman Awards,...
Indigenous Women in Aviation: Flying the Female Skies
In Canada, Indigenous women are making their presence felt in the aviation industry, which has historically been dominated by men.
Be a Catalyst for Change: Women 50+ Travellers Invited to Participate in Global Survey on Solo Travel
In partnership with Collette Travel, Intrepid and Aurora Expeditions, JourneyWoman has launched a global survey on women 50+ travellers.
Women’s Rights and Gender Equality: A Solo Traveller’s Perspective
As a solo traveller, I’ve seen first hand that the struggle for gender equality continues, both at home and for women worldwide.
JourneyWoman, Don’t Stand on the Sidelines
Featured image: Let’s step into the future not the past | Photo by ShutterstockThis is our time as women to participate by Carolyn Ray Whether you’ve been out travelling or at home, you may have noticed some distressing shifts in how women are being treated in the...
Solo Travel Memoirs
Solo Traveller’s Tattoos Tell a Story of Hope, Resilience and Life After Breast Cancer
Solo traveller Christine Pope’s tattoos tell stories of strength, resilience, hope, and life after breast cancer.
Solo Travel Memoirs: How One Woman Became a Travelling Storyteller
After Colombian Juliana Marín Fryling discovered Vivapalabra, she followed her passion to become a travelling storyteller.
Solo Travel Memoirs: Connecting to the World Through Art and Travel
Solo traveller Karen Gershowitz connects to the world through art and travel, rediscovering her artist’s soul.
Solo Travel Memoirs: How a Passion for Bees Inspires Beekeeper Tita Manice to Travel
Tita Manice has travelled to over 68 countries, including India, New Zealand, Bhutan and Morocco. Her passion for the uncharted path is equaled only by her passion for small insects – bees – that inspires her to seek out beekeepers and honey around the world.
More Women’s Solo Travel Stories to Inspire You
Travel with Purpose: Volunteering at a Turtle Conservation Project in Costa Rica Makes My Dream Real
As a volunteer on a turtle conservation project in Costa Rica with Conservation VIP, I fulfilled a long-held dream to help baby turtles.
Transforming an Abandoned Quarry Into a Vineyard: A Story of Sustainability in Mallorca
On the wine-producing island of Mallorca, Spain, entrepreneur Virginia Pones is bringing an abandoned quarry back to life as a winery, reviving her husband’s family business.
Creating an Inclusive Travel World Where Everyone Belongs: Seven Things That Need to Change
With the growing demand for accessibility in the travel space, here are seven ways the travel industry can embrace a higher level of inclusion.
wmnsWORK: Fostering the Next Generation of Women Entrepreneurs in Travel
JourneyWoman is supporting wmnsWORK, which helps women entrepreneurs overcome barriers to starting a business, with a scholarship.
JourneyWoman Global 30th Anniversary Celebration: Celebrate 30 Years of Solo Women’s Travel on October 30
Join our 30th anniversary global celebration in women’s solo travel: Author Paige McClachan, JourneyWoman Awards for Women Over 50 and more.
JourneyWoman Webinar: Journeys With Purpose With Humanitarian Carla Geyser on October 15
Join our webinar with humanitarian Carla Geyser to learn the audacious treks she designs for courageous women to raise funds for wildlife.
Finding Your ‘Sisters’ Through Travel: Sisterhood Travels Helps Widows and Solo Women Build Self-Confidence
After her husband and long-time travel partner passed away, Stacey Ray started Sisterhood Travel to help other women build their confidence through travel.
How Women-Led Travel B Corps Are Balancing Profit With Purpose
Meet women entrepreneurs who are changing the rules of the game by transforming their businesses into certified B Corps.
Overtourism: What Can We Do?
News headlines tell us that overtourism is getting out of control, but what can we do to help offset it?
Trailblazer Maggie Duncan Simbeye, Tanzania’s First Indigenous Woman Safari Owner
Meet Tanzania’s Maggie Duncan Simbeye, a trailblazing leader who is opening doors for women to follow their dreams.
Alcohol-Free Travel: A Different (and Healthier) Kind of Journey
With the growth of de-alcoholized beers, mocktails and sparkling wine, there’s never been a better to time to try alcohol-free travel.
The Black Fly in Our Chardonnay: Booze Around the World
Jules Torti and her wife Kim have been on countless adventures in search of booze around the world, from moonshine to craft beers and more!
A Universal Calling for Postmenopausal Women: Travel!
Single, cat-owning, childless… and now they’re coming for the grandmas? It’s up to us to shift stereotypes about postmenopausal women.
Sisters Doing it for Themselves: Hiking the Himalayas in an All-Women Group in Nepal
Sarah O’Regan braves the elements in the Himalayas, finding sisterhood and tranquility with a social enterprise that empowers women.
Meet the 2024 JourneyWoman Awards Finalists: Trailblazing Women over 50
The 2024 JourneyWoman Awards finalists are trailblazing women over 50 in travel, including solo travellers, entrepreneurs and hospitality leaders.
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