Marybeth Bond the Gutsy Traveller, follows the trends and offers some Statistics about Women Travellers, here is a excerpt from her site: With 32 million trips taken last year, U.S. women — young, old, single, married, divorced, widowed, mothers, daughters and sisters — have become a driving force in the travel industry. Estimates are that women will spend some $125 billion on travel in the next year. … [Read more...]
New Delhi Airport – Dianne Will meet you
March 2010 Dianne is no longer offering this service, but is offering some great personalised tours in India. find out more New Zealander Dianne Sharma-Winter is a poet, a peregrine (pilgrim), and a practitioner of the healing arts. She was a late starter as a traveller, but it is now in her blood, and one of her passions in India. Combining a passion and a business, Dianne has set up a small business welcoming women to New Delhi. … [Read more...]
Women on tour – Istanbul, Barcelona…
Through a comment on this blog, I have just been introduced to another great women's tour company called Women on Tour. This UK based company is for women and run by women - the have some great trips to Barcelona, Istanbul - meditation workshops, creative writing and drawing, walking in Spain and more. They are also looking always for new travel guides - perhaps that is you? Our all-female company was set up to offer you the possibility of … [Read more...]
Have website will travel..
Ceridwyn Parr writes in NZ Business about the setting up of Women Travel the World as an international website based in the small rural town of Waipu in Northland New Zealand: The tiny Northland village of Waipu may seem an unlikely base for a global travel website, but Rosemary Neave has not let that hold her back. Ceridwyn Parr reports. … [Read more...]
Looking for an exotic holiday later this year?
Then look no further!!! Venus Adventures has some GREAT fun trips for women coming up in September, October, November 2009, and now is the time to start thinking about them. There are lots of great air fare specials coming out, so now is also the time to book! … [Read more...]
Six Feisty Female Travellers
Women's Travel stories are a growing genre, and there are some great online and printed versions. One great local NZ book is Going the distance: Women outdoors in New Zealand which traces both current women walking and the stories of women who have walked the way before. Lucy comes up with 6 feisty women to celebrate in this great article: … [Read more...]
Into the Wild – Venus Women in Mali
Julie Paterson takes women where they have not been before.... She has steadily added new destinations to the Venus Adventures adventure trips for women, but her particular passion is northern Africa. She has added Mali as a new destination to the Calendar after her exploration there. Over New Year join Julie on a challenging African adventure to Timbuktu infamous Festival au Desert, the highlight of our journey. This trip is definitely for … [Read more...]
Chinked coastline- the Cinque Terre
Sunshine in the morning let us explore the fabled colours and cleverness of the Cinque Terre. From Manarola we took a walk along Lover's Lane, or Via dell'Amore- a paved, gentle walk for twenty minutes to the next village, Riomaggiore. Far below the sea promised excellent kayaking and snorkelling on its emerald water, fringing the rocks with clean white foam. The walkway had seats to admire the view, a couple of cafes in the summer and some … [Read more...]
Eastbourne – The Langtons Guest House
One of the nice things about running a website like Women Travel the World, is the great people you meet in the travel business. We had based ourselves in Brighton at the lovely Pink House, but up just up the road was another women owned guest house which is also listed on Women Travel the World. Jane and Anne invited us over to visit, so we meandered out way along the coast, detoured to magnificent Beachy Head for a very cold but pleasant walk, … [Read more...]
Our Lady of Fatima and Caves – looking beneath the surface
Today we are off on a pilgrimage - Ceridwyn and I are keen to see Fatima. This international focus of pilgrimage is just down the road from Tomar where we are staying. Danielle is not so keen and The Lonely Planet is downright scathing about tacky religious souvenirs I am here as an observer of the phenomenon that is Fatima. A welcome sign invites us to enter as pilgrims and despite myself, I am soon drawn in to the sense of holy in the place. … [Read more...]
