World Travel Market has announced new women-focused seminar sessions for this year’s event.
The Women in Travel programme will include a session on the Tuesday named ‘Secrets of Successful Female Trav-Preneurs’ with those on stage to include Julia Feuell, founder and managing director of New Frontiers and OTT; Mandy Nickerson, managing director of Hexagon Travel and Sarah Johnson, managing director of Lotus UK.
A Wednesday session will cover a different topic, titled ‘Women, Human Rights and the Travel Industry – Helping or Hindering the Future of Women?’.
This seminar will focus on how the industry could help women get out of poverty, with speakers including Tricia Barnett, director of Equality in Tourism; Gavin Bate, founder of Adventure Alternative, and Nora Russell, fundraising and development manager at Women for Women International.
WTM’s senior director Simon Press said: “I am delighted to be able to launch the new Women in Travel programme. Women make the majority of the workforce in the industry, although senior positions are mainly taken up by men. The Secrets of Successful Female Trav-Preneurs session will give women vital tips to help them set up on their own.
“Furthermore, as a global industry travel and tourism has a responsibility to the people in the countries its sells, but is it doing enough to protect the human rights of some women in countries it promotes?”.
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