Travel companies are celebrating women by addressing gender bias and inequality in the industry.
Journeys created by women for women is on the agenda for one travel company as it looks to address gender bias and inequality in the industry.
Travel corporation Insights Vacation is celebrating women’s achievements by helping to create an inclusive world through experiences that connect women travellers with female artisans, entrepreneurs, business and community leaders.
“More than 50% of the global workforce in our industry are women and female clients are yearning for uplifting and immersive experiences, said Insights Vacation global chief executive officer Ulla Hefel Böhler.
This year s theme is “Choose to Challenge”. To mark the event, the SNJ has spoken to female funeral director Victoria Millross about her life in what has traditionally been a male-dominated profession, and also about the challenges the pandemic poses for the funeral sector. Victoria has worked at Philip Ford and Son in Stroud, part of Dignity Funerals, for five years. She said she became interested in the profession after suffering a close bereavement. “I was working in a restaurant when I suffered a very close bereavement, losing a cousin that was a similar age to me,” she said. “It was the first family funeral I could remember, and I was overwhelmed by the care and attention to detail of the funeral director.
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