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Six Wellness Retreats for Solo Women Travellers in 2022
From California to Spain to Tuscany, we’ve curated some of our most recommended wellness retreats and experiences for solo women.
Fit to Travel: Tips for Women to Get Adventure-Ready at Any Age
If your TravelReady goals for 2022 include improving your health and fitness, this article—and the get travel-fit tips developed by yours truly and 56-year-old ultra-runner Beth Whitman—will help you put your best foot forward.
16 Wellness Products to Travel with in 2022
As travellers, self-care is one of the most important relationships we have. These products are perfect for boosting your health—before, during and after your next trip.
Expert Tips for Women to Manage Travel Fear and Anxiety
Master life coach Debbie Phillips shares her expert tips for women to manage travel fear and anxiety in a post-pandemic world.
Travel Over 80: Tips and Stretches for Women to Face Flights With Ease
Our Travel Over 80 expert and former dancer Diana Eden shares some tips and stretches she uses to survive the pain of long-haul flights with back and hip issues.
Travel Essentials: Insurance, Financial and Legal Essentials for Women (Transcript, January 7, 2021 Webinar)
TravelReady Travel Essentials, Tips from the Experts: This is an edited transcript of our webinar on January 7, 2021.
The Long Game: Limbering up for Solo Travel
Working from home and restricting movement poses risks to our health, regardless of whether we’ve experienced injuries before or not. We turned to health and wellness expert and JourneyWoman Women’s Travel Advisory Council member Dr. Nekessa Remy for some insights and tips to get us ready for the day we can pack our bags and get travelling again.
Travel, Her Way: What Female Solo Travel Looks Like Post-Pandemic
What will the new way to travel look like for mature, independent women? We think these five criteria will help us, as women, lead the way.
JourneyWoman Presents: Women’s Sleep & Health Hacks to Travel Better (Webinar)
Want to feel more powerful, happier and energized? It all starts with better sleep. Join best-selling author Shawna M. Robins as she shares her expert tips for women who travel.
Women travellers on flying in the COVID Era
Air travel isn’t what it used to be. Neither are we as travellers. Read on for a summary of experiences and some confidence-boosting recommendations from seasoned women travellers for airports and airlines.
Expert Wellness Tips for Women to Improve Sleep and Travel
There’s no better time than now to improve our sleep quality for better travel experiences. Learn how from sleep expert Shawna Robins.
Tips to Start Conversations When Travelling Solo
Think about the most colourful and meaningful conversations you’ve had on your travels. They likely started with a question based in curiosity versus polite small talk.
How will COVID-19 Change Travel? Travel experts share their views with JourneyWoman
With COVIID-19, we are in uncharted territory. To provide JourneyWomen with the insight scoop, we reached out to top travel journalists and industry experts to understand how the pandemic will change how and where we travel.
Observations from Self-Quarantine
Hello, friends! How are we all feeling today? How many of you are in self-isolation, working from home or experiencing life in lockdown?
Update on COVID-19: Society of American Travel Writers (March 4)
March 4: Today I attended a special webinar on COVID-19 hosted by the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW), of which I am a member.
24 Things a Woman Should Know Before Visiting Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe is a small, intimate city that offers way more than you probably expect from a city this size. Nicknamed The City Different, it offers world-class music and art and a sophisticated dining scene.
Delhi Belly and Me: A Guide to Travellers Diarrhea
For travellers to far flung places, some things never change. Baggage gets lost, bugs bite, and ‘poop’ happens!
Women’s Travel Tip: Prepare for High Altitudes in Ecuador
Tips for altitudes from my 5100m climb at Chimborazo volcano in Ecuador
7 Health Tips for JourneyWomen Flying South
Are you an older adult travelling south this winter? Here are some easy tips to make your experience as healthy, informed and comfortable as possible.
Stress Management on the Road
Women travellers are likely to be subject to particular stresses whilst travelling, certainly until they’ve reached a certain plateau of self-confidence and familiarity with cultural “rules”.
What to Do About Doo Doo
It’s JourneyWoman’s job to help you travel the world with the least bit of discomfort. Here, then, are tips to keep your body running like a well-oiled machine.
When you are sick on the road…
Evelyn shares her top 12 tips for when you’re sick on the road.
Best Bathroom Times on an Aircraft
Flight attendant Ruth Wilson knows a thing or two about aircraft bathrooms, and spent some time answering our potty questions
Travel for Two–The Pregnant Traveller
Perhaps travel for pregnant females was frowned upon in our grandmothers’ time. But today, with proper awareness and attitude, women can generally travel right up to their 35th week of pregnancy.
25 Things To Know Before Visiting Ubud, Bali
Canadian JourneyWoman Amit Janco shares the top 25 tips she’s learned while living and healing in Ubud, Bali.
36 Tips from a backpacker
American JourneyWoman Kerry knows a thing or two about travelling with a backpack & shares 36 things she’s found indispensable on her globe-trotting trips.
Solo Travel Secrets: She Deals With Loneliness on the Road
First time or fiftieth, solo travellers can face loneliness. Evelyn Hannon and the JW community share stories on coping with loneliness on the road.