International Women’s Day makes fitting timing for Insight Vacations to launch its latest women-only tour, part of the tour company’s “Wander Women” series of journeys created for women, by women.
Insight says it supports this year’s IWD theme, Choose to Challenge, in calling out gender bias and inequality and, by turn, is celebrating women’s achievements by helping to create an inclusive world through experiences that connect clients with women artisans, entrepreneurs, business and community leaders, as well as by hiring women travel directors, local experts, coach drivers, experience hosts, etc.
“More than 50 percent of the global workforce in our industry are women and female clients are yearning for uplifting and immersive experiences,” says Insight Vacations global CEO Ulla Hefel Böhler. “On this International Women’s Day, we #ChooseToChallenge by seeking out and celebrating women’s successes with local female trailblazers, artisans and community leaders whom we visit and support across the globe.”
Today Insight is launching the second dedicated tour in its Wander Women series, the 12-day “Venice & The Croatian Coast, A Women’s-Only Tour,” which will take place as a single departure in summer 2022, offering “enriching travel experiences that cater to the diverse interests of female clients and introduce guests to inspiring women in communities across Croatia.” It will also feature special guest, environmentalist, documentary filmmaker and director Céline Cousteau (also a TreadRight ‘planet’ ambassador).
The Croatia journey includes three new Make Travel Matters Experiences designed to uplift local women in their communities and ensure, says Insight, that its travels are used as a force for good while supporting the United Nations’ global goals.
Tour highlights include:
• Joining award-winning molecular biologist Irene Fonda on a short boat ride to visit her family’s fish farm to learn about the breeding of high-quality sustainable sea bass
• Visiting a DEŠA (humanitarian and peace organization) workshop that helps women and their families, including refugees, better cope with various hardships and challenges by promoting traditional cuisine and small handicrafts
• Meeting artist Antonia Rusković Radonić, who works to preserve local silk traditions and embroidery techniques originating in the 15th century and is helping to re-introduce men’s and women’s traditional folk costumes
• Dropping in at the Tara Community Centre, where a collective of older women create traditional handicrafts, enabling employment and community engagement.
Insight’s first women’s-only trip, “Inspirational India,” was launched last year and is set to depart in October 2021.