These women who travel alone
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Who are these women who travel alone?
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By: Amélie Beaucour
1 min
“Explorer”, “adventurer”, “adventurer”... In the collective imagination, the vocabulary of travel is often masculine, yet women are also taking to the road and there are even more and more of them.
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Some have even made it a real way of life.
Evidenced by their travel stories, advice blogs and forums found on the web.
According to the World Tourism Organization, there were 139 million female travelers in 2017 compared to 59 million three years earlier.
Traveling alone when you are a woman is not trivial.
Fear, security, social pressure, … some do not dare to take the plunge.
Who are these travellers?
What are they looking for in the trip?
As the pandemic has interfered in our daily lives, have some given up on casting off?
With :
Lucie Azema
, journalist, long-distance traveler and author of
Women also are part of the trip – emancipation by departure
(Flammarion, 2021)
Katia Asatfieff
, traveler, science communicator and author of
The Girl Who Wanted to See the Bear (Arthaud, 2022)
Noura Iffa
, Moroccan traveler.
In 2020, she undertook a tour of Africa by bicycle.
Trip interrupted after traveling through Morocco, Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia because of the pandemic.
An interview with
Najet Benrabaa
, RFI correspondent in Medellin, Colombia, where women travel a lot and alone.
What is not common for Colombians...
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