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Women Lead the Charge in Solo Travel - Newsweek
Female travelers are going it alone—and to more exotic locations
Mae West once said, “Good girls go to heaven—bad girls go everywhere.” And, apparently, they want to go everywhere alone.
A new survey by OnePoll and Travelex found that nearly one in four travelers prefer traveling alone—a trend being led by financially secure women over 30. The Solo Travel Society on Facebook has more than 225,000 followers, and 63% of them are female. And a recent Booking.com survey found that 65% of Americn women are taking vacations without their partners—something many in the forefront of travel have been seeing on the ground for a while.
“We are finding women are traveling solo more than men,” Andrea Ross, the managing director of tour operator Wild Frontiers, told Newsweek. “About 65 percent of our solo travelers are female, ranging in age from their 30s up to their 80s. But there’s a particularly large group of women in their 40s and 50s traveling solo." In the past few years, Ross has seen a 15 percent year-over-year uptick in women booking trips alone.
Female travelers are going it alone—and to more exotic locations
Mae West once said, “Good girls go to heaven—bad girls go everywhere.” And, apparently, they want to go everywhere alone.
A new survey by OnePoll and Travelex found that nearly one in four travelers prefer traveling alone—a trend being led by financially secure women over 30. The Solo Travel Society on Facebook has more than 225,000 followers, and 63% of them are female. And a recent Booking.com survey found that 65% of Americn women are taking vacations without their partners—something many in the forefront of travel have been seeing on the ground for a while.
“We are finding women are traveling solo more than men,” Andrea Ross, the managing director of tour operator Wild Frontiers, told Newsweek. “About 65 percent of our solo travelers are female, ranging in age from their 30s up to their 80s. But there’s a particularly large group of women in their 40s and 50s traveling solo." In the past few years, Ross has seen a 15 percent year-over-year uptick in women booking trips alone.