Amazing Women In Travel

Happy Women’s History Month! All month I’ll be bringing you tips for traveling as a woman, historical women in travel, and how you can support more women while you travel. Right now, more than ever, it’s important to support women in all facets of business, because we may be seeing fewer women being able to start restaurants, tour companies, and other things we use when we travel.

Sacramento Underground Tour guide

I try my best to use minority-owned businesses wherever I go and especially at home. If you want to be part of helping them succeed, it’s important to know about women’s contributions past and present. So, here are some amazing women in the travel space:

Lauren Bates – founder of Wild Terrains

If you’re a woman who wants to travel with other women and support other women in travel, Wild Terrains specializes in small group tours exclusively for women.

Our great tour guide on the Denver Graffiti Tour

Vincie Ho – founder of RISE Travel Institute

Vincie has founded a non-profit that inspires sustainable and responsible travel through education. She aims to create a community of conscious travelers and travel professionals through online courses, study tours, and travel scholarships.

NomadHer App

Are you a woman traveling solo? Download the NomadHer app, founded by a woman and run by an almost all female team, that can help you travel more safely, learn from other women travelers’ experiences, and even find new friends to travel and/or meet up with. Every user is verified by an actual person, so you know that you are dealing with actual women on the app.

Captain Kate McCue

One of few female cruise captains, Captain Kate was the first woman named captain of a “mega” cruise ship. She has spent the last 10 years with Celebrity Cruises and, until her recent passing, brought her hairless cat, Bug, with her on most voyages. You can follow her on her very cool Instagram account, where you see some awesome behind the scenes of the cruise industry.

Denver Art Museum

Stephanie Jones – founder of Cultural Heritage Economic Alliance Inc.

Stephanie is reshaping the travel and tourism industry to better serve underrepresented small Black and brown businesses, creating more equitable, diverse, and inclusive opportunities. Not only does this help independent travel entrepreneurs, but helps to bring tourist dollars to local communities, instead of giant corporations.

Tracey Friley – founder of Tracey Friley Travel

Tracey is lovely travel professional who started her career by taking people to Paris and then continued to bring people there while adding other destinations, and helping Black girls get their first passports and go on their first international trips. Most POC, and especially Black women, have to traverse difficult barriers to obtain a passport, so having someone to help you through the process is very helpful and encourages travel when you already have someone to show you the ropes on your inauguration trip. 

Tell me about some of your favorite women in travel.

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