Prestigious Travel Award for The Women's Travel Group

THE Women's Travel Group has again won a prestigious travel award from Travel Weekly Magazine. The Silver Magellan Award for 2018 honors the company's outreach to solo women looking for a travel group to join.

The Women's Travel Group has offered small group quality tours for women for 26 years and often chooses new and unusual destinations for women who have already traveled a great deal: Iran, Namibia, S Africa, India, Albania etc. Hotels are 4 star, meals in restaurants and guides are trained to cater to the intellectual needs of women travelers. Trips sometimes have speakers and always have unique visits.

The market for women's travel is barely touched by the large travel corporations; this boutique tour operator tries to fill that gap while providing hand holding for those taking their first trip. Some of the trips are co-organized by Sita World Tours of Encino CA, who have worked with The Group for many years.


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Solo travel: to do or not to do?

A recent women's travel safety survey revealed that 45 percent of female travelers feel less safe or much less safe about traveling than they did five years ago. Results of the travel trends survey, commissioned by AIG Travel, a worldwide leader in travel insurance and assistance services, also show that safety is top of mind for women while they are evaluating potential destinations as well as during their travels.

As solo travel rises in popularity, especially among females, increased reports of violence or geopolitical turmoil in some regions may heighten awareness of individual security and impact women's decisions on where and when to journey. To help minimize risks that females may face when traveling, AIG Travel recently launched a Women's Travel Safety initiative, which shares advice on how to research travel destinations, become familiar with local laws and customs, and leverage tools in the event of adverse situations, such as kidnappings or other crimes.

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New bucket lists for senior women travellers

RECENT research indicates that women over 50 have new expectations about destinations. To satisfy this new demand, The Women’s Travel Group has added places overlooked by more commercial companies. The Women’s Travel Group has been offering tours for 26 years. All trips use 4-5 star or best available hotels, include many meals, and unusual sightseeing and often festivals. The company brings in speakers on controversial or political themes. Groups are small ranging from 10-18.

Coming up in 2018:

• Northern Ireland
• Sardinia with Rome
• Southern Spain
• Oaxaca, Mexico
• Brazil including Salvador

In 2019:

• Albania with Corfu
• Ethiopia
• Southern India
• Sri Lanka
• Iceland and Finland

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Stay, play and learn in Thailand with Akaryn Hotel Group

THE innovative Thailand-based hospitality group AKARYN Hotel Group who specialise in boutique experiences, is offering unique stay, play and learn packages created especially for independent women travellers. Following the rise of the female traveller, four of the Hotel Group properties in #Thailand are giving women the opportunity to enjoy an array of engaging experiences and learn new skills during a 4 Day, 3 Night stay known as the Deluxe Doyenne package.

akyra Beach Club Phuket, learn surfing, stand-up paddle boarding, or develop basic DJ skills with the resort’s resident DJ using a special smartphone app.

akyra Manor Chiang Mai, absorb the hotel’s design driven surroundings and pick up a brush to learn the art of painting from a local artist.

Aleenta Phuket Resort & Spa, learn the basics of Thai massage, yoga or Thai boxing from experienced instructors.

Aleenta Hua Hin Resort & Spa, visit the resort’s own organic farm, learn about Thai herbs and their benefits, then see how they are used at the Aleenta kitchen and Ayurah Spa.

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Up in the air . . .

AIR India has decided to reserve seats in an entire row, namely the third row, in Economy Class on its Domestic Flights for women passengers who wish to travel alone. These special seats, which can be availed by such women passengers, will come at no extra cost. 

A women passenger can request the seats at any of Air India’s booking offices in the city or at the airport and they can be taken up to 90 minutes before departure for Domestic flights.

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100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go

INSPIRED by #Italy the third edition of 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go has been released. "Women love Italy because Italy loves women," says author Susan Van Allen, who has been traveling there for 40 years.

She guides readers to places where women have been worshipped, (Diana's temple in Sicily or Santa Maria Novella in Florence), and places where women lived and flourished, (Peggy Guggenheim's museum in Venice, Isabelle d'Este's Renaissance studiolo in Mantua).

There's advice for her favorite gardens, beaches, and spas. Her sections on shopping and indulging taste buds come with hidden female backstories, including the rise of women-owned wineries in recent decades.

For those looking for immersion experiences, she offers cooking classes, (such as rolling pasta in Calabria), or hammering mosaics in Rome, as well as hiking and biking adventures and entertainments-from operas to puppet shows. Rounding out the book is delightful practical advice, including the encouragement to "flirt, but don't take any of it seriously."

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Thailand targets women travellers

THAILAND’S tourism authority has launched a campaign to attract women holidaymakers, especially those from India.

Soraya Homchuen, at the authority’s Mumbai office says: ‘Once a negligible proportion of Thailand’s market mix and only visiting on family holidays, today women travellers represent 30% of our arrivals from India. We would like to scale this up to 60-65% by 2022.’

Ms Homchuen cites a study by Thomas Cook earlier this year, which concluded that 70% of women today prefer to travel with friends instead of family members, and many studies have indicated that culture, cuisine, spa, and shopping are the main interests of women travellers.

‘#Thailand emerges as the perfect choice and the best fit for this segment,’ she says, ‘because it meets all these needs effectively. An Amadeus study has indicated that by 2020, the women traveller’s market would have grown by 891%.’

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