Women are embracing journeys that transform not only their passports, but their perspectives. There is an entire category of female traveller that is looking to visit more diverse destinations and is comfortable doing it solo, or with female friends or family.
This growing category of independent woman traveller is driving a movement: hosted group journeys specifically for women.
Solo travel doesn’t mean travelling alone anymore. Increasingly, women are discovering the sweet spot between independent exploration and shared experience through carefully curated group tours designed specifically for female travellers. These aren’t just trips; they’re transformative journeys that blend personal adventure with a sense of community, safety, and mutual empowerment.
Here are a few of our top picks for group travel geared toward women.
Australian-based Intrepid offers specialized group tours designed exclusively for women, focusing on creating empowering and supportive travel experiences that connect women travellers with local communities and cultures.
Utilizing female local guides, Intrepid’s Women’s Expeditions offer the opportunity to visit locations and meet women that otherwise would not be possible in these countries. Culturally and socially it would not be acceptable for a mixed gender group to attend a meal at a local woman’s home, or go to a female-only business in some destinations. Guided women-only groups allow travellers to see sides of the country they would not while touring with male travellers or guides.
The goal of these guided trips is to break down barriers, foster discussion and create immersive local experiences for women that are ordinarily off limits to regular groups. They provide local women employment through locally-led experiences and support women-owned and operated businesses.
Currently, Intrepid offers Women’s Expeditions to Turkey, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Morocco and Saudi Arabia.
EF Go Ahead Tours offers specialized group tours designed to cater to women travellers, providing curated experiences that combine cultural exploration, personal growth, and community connection.
These tours help you explore the destination through the triumphs and tribulations of the women who shaped them throughout history with handpicked, guided sightseeing. Guided by a female tour director, you’ll also meet women at the helm of local businesses. In Peru you might learn traditional weaving from female Andean artisans, sample wine at a women-owned winery in Crete or make pasta with a female chef in Bologna, Italy.
EF Go Ahead Tours offers women’s group tours to a number of destinations including Italy, France, Greece, Spain, Portugal, United Kingdom, Ireland, Iceland, Egypt, Morocco, Japan, Costa Rica and Peru.
We’re including Canadian-based G Adventures on this list for their new “Solo-ish” adventures. Although these are not technically women-only groups, G Adventures says almost 70 per cent of participants in their solo groups are female. And, on all Solo-ish trips, groups are led by a female Chief Experience Officer.
Exclusively for solo travellers, aged 18 and up, on these guided tours you’ll be travelling with a community of people stepping out on their own to welcome whatever the world brings their way. And even though it’s group travel, each trip includes a dedicated “Me Day” so you have the flexibility and free time to do your own thing, at your own pace.
G Adventures offers 33 different itineraries in their Solo-ish offerings, with the latest destinations added including Cambodia, Uzbekistan, Ecuador, Galapagos and Sicily.
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