On this page you will find our press releases, media coverage, and speaking engagements.
Contact us if we can be a source for an upcoming article / feature on Solo Female Travel. We are happy to provide quotes, interviews, and data points to assist with your story. Like-wise, both Mar and Meg are experienced public speakers, and would be happy to discuss speaking at your upcoming event.
Media coverage
We have proudly been featured by media publications and platforms from across the world and below is a selection.
Aire, Aeromexico’s inflight magazine – Solo Female Travel Trends
Women we watch podcast – Listen on Spotify
Web in travel – Solo Female Travelers worry about safety, distrust influencers
Forbes – Solo Female Travel survey seeks 10,000 responses
Kated Travel Podcast – Episode 132 – Solo Female Travel with Meg Jerrard
Life lovers magazine – How Facebook Groups are helping women travel safely
Panion – Empowering female communities
Jennifer Casseta – Best self defense tools every woman should own
Thrive Global – Tools for working remotely
Every Country in the World – The Favorites of Megan Jerrard
The Mercury Tasmania – Tassie Instagram influencers spill their secrets to success
Business Insider – Top Laptop Bags of 2021
Travel Agent Central – Stats: 68% Of Solo Female Travelers Seek Cultural Immersion
Unorthodox Travel – Are you a woman travelling solo? You’re not alone
Owl guru – What’s it like to be a travel blogger
Billion Success – Growing a travel community when borders are closed
Yahoo Finance – Solo Female Travelers taps UrSafe personal safety app for its 90k “Women Womxn”
SmartTravel.news – Solo Female Travelers, la plataforma que empodera a mujeres de todo el mundo a viajar solas (in Spanish)
AOL – Top 8 Money-Saving Tips for Traveling During Shoulder Season
Speaking engagements
Web in travel: Travel roadshow Episode 5 – How to turn revenge travel into beautiful travel
Our Co-Founder Mar Pages participated in a panel with:
- Laurent Kuenzle, CEO of Asian Trails, and
- Nuno Guerreiro, Regional Director, South Asia, Oceania & Chains, Booking.com
Tas Social Group
Our Co-Founder Meg Jerrard spoke at Tas Social Group event about how female entrepreneurs could harness social media for a powerful impact on small business.
Image by SallyMedwin.com
Press releases
All of our press releases may be reprinted in part or entirety by any print or broadcast media outlet, or used by any means of social media sharing. They are for immediate worldwide release unless otherwise stated. For interviews, additional quotes, or more information, contact community@solofemaletravelers.club.
Click on the image below to read the press release.
2021 Press Releases
Women Helping Women Reach the Top
As travel returns, women favor intimate group trips to bucket list destinations with a purpose. In honor of International Women’s Day 2022 and in collaboration with the Tanzania Women Guide Foundation, Solo Female Travelers will take women to the top of Africa on an all-female guide, porter and trekker team.
Solo Female Travel Survey: 73% of Women Worry About Safety, 23% Distrust Influencers.
The first of three instalments from the 2020 Solo Female Travel Trends Survey reveals that women travel solo for many reasons, indisputably worry about safety, trust others like them but distrust influencers. To address the safety challenge, Solo Female Travelers launched a women-only Safety Index and Empowerful, the first Solo Female Travel Safety, Wellness and Sexual Wellbeing Festival.
What women traveling solo want is not shopping or pictures for the gram but culture, beauty and nature.
The second round of results from the 2020 Solo Female Travel Trends Survey released on International Women’s Day reveals that solo female travelers dream of going to Greece, Japan, Australia and Italy, pick a destination based on culture, safety and nature and are not interested in shopping or Instagram worthy shots. 5,000 female respondents urge the travel industry to stop using outdated and irrelevant stereotypes of what women like to do when traveling solo.
2020 Press Releases
Meet Audrey, The World’s Most Well Traveled Woman
Audrey Walsworth is one of only 3 women to have visited every country and territory in the world. Her 50 year journey to becoming the world’s most well traveled woman is told in an exciting 6 minute video produced by Solo Female Travelers Club.
The World’s First Community of Solo Female Travelers Turns 5, Gives Away $10,000 in Travel Prizes
Founded to empower women from all over the world to travel solo, Solo Female Travelers was one of the first global communities of its kind, and on July 17 2020 it turns 5.
In celebration, co-founders Mar Pages of Once in a Lifetime Journey and Meg Jerrard of Mapping Megan are partnering with their favorite brands to give away more than $10,000 in travel experiences and prizes.
Female Travel Founders Seek to Impact Industry with Largest Survey of its Kind
Two female travel companies, Solo Female Travelers and SheFari, have partnered to launch the largest-scale global survey ever conducted for the solo female travel niche.
The brands have created two online questionnaires: one for women who have traveled solo, and one for those who have not, which will be open to global participants from November 18 until December 9, 2020 and aim to collect 10,000 responses.