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Best Travel Insurance For Solo Female Travelers

You should never, ever, leave the house without travel insurance. If anything happened to you, you could easily end up bankrupt or not get the help you need. It’s simply not worth it, and this is one of the most important parts of travel planning.

To help you find good value travel insurance, we’ve compared the top 6 companies, as recommended by our community. These are the most popular and reputable travel insurance websites that travelers around the world use.

Solo Female Travel Safety Tips

Our solo female travel trends survey revealed that 73% of solo female travelers worry about their safety. Even those who are very experienced solo travelers and have taken more than 10 trips on their own, still worry almost as much. Traveling solo poses a lot of uncertainties and challenges and, for women, those unknowns are …

Afghanistan’s first female guide joins Solo Female Travelers

February 8th, 2022 – For immediate release Solo Female Travelers expands its content and community management team to include Afghanistan’s first female guide as interest in women-only group travel grows by 50%. International travel is slowly but steadily returning to pre-pandemic levels since the summer of 2021. This recovery is most visible in group travel, where …

80+ Amazing travel gifts for her

Ever wondered what to buy that friend who loves to travel? Or maybe you are looking for inspiration for your own Wishlist to Santa? Look no further!

Best Travel Industry Jobs For Work and Travel

One of the most obvious ways to work and travel the world is by picking a job within the travel industry.

Some of the most obvious ones, such as cabin crew, are directly related to travel whereas others, like a travel agent, provide employees with lots of benefits that make it easier and more affordable to travel more often.

In this article we want to look at travel jobs, aka jobs that are in the travel industry. Some of these require degrees and specialist education, whereas others have minimum skill requirements or can be learned with online courses.

Tips for staying in a hostel for the first time

Do you want to save on accommodation when traveling but the idea of staying in a hostel for the first time feels daunting? If you’re traveling backpacker style, want a budget-friendly accommodation or are looking for meeting new people abroad, staying in a hostel is a great option. But if you have never done it …

Best volunteer vacation programs

Have you ever heard the terms “voluntourism”, “volunteer vacation”, “volunteer vacation program”, “gap year volunteering” or “traveling with a purpose”? Volunteer travel has become very popular over the past few decades with almost 1 million US students heading abroad every year, over a third of the students in the UK taking a gap year with …

Benefits of traveling alone

If there is one item that should be on anyone’s bucket list that is traveling alone at least once. Solo travel is empowering, liberating, self-actualising and a major boost to your confidence. It can also be a life changing experience and, as Mark Twain wisely put it in one of our favorite travel quotes, “(…) …

Solo travel vs. Group travel

Do you prefer to travel solo independently or in a group? How do you define solo travel? Where do you set the line between solo and group travel? Does a trip which you take on your own and then continue with a group of strangers, qualify as a solo trip? Or does solo mean completely …

Solo female travel in a post-pandemic world

29 November 2021 – For Immediate Release The Solo Female Travel Trends Survey 2021 launches today with the objective to continue giving women who travel on their own a voice in the travel industry and understand the impact the pandemic has had on travel behaviors and needs. Participants can answer one of two questionnaires depending …