UNLEASHING YOUR POTENTIAL

Women in Travel Thrive is an initiative founded by a group of women in the travel industry to help reduce the impact that COVID-19 has on women’s career progression. Our primary goal is to make connections and open doors for women across the hospitality industry. Our inaugural events was the “Day of Impact” that took place January 2021. On this day, over 500 women across the travel and tourism industry participated in the THRIVE Match Network program to learn from one another and create lasting connections that thrive.

Juggling multiple demands at home, occupying more front line jobs, and the impact to the tourism industry has led to women in travel being a heavily impacted demographic in COVID-19 job losses.

McKinsey reports that global female job losses related to the pandemic are expected to be 5.7% compared to 3.1% than male job losses. “… in a gender-regressive scenario in which no action is taken to counter these effects, we estimate that global GDP growth could be $1 trillion lower in 2030 than it would be if women’s unemployment simply tracked that of men in each sector. Conversely, taking action now to advance gender equality could be valuable, adding $13 trillion to global GDP in 2030 compared with the gender-regressive scenario. A middle path—taking action only after the crisis has subsided rather than now—would reduce the potential opportunity by more than $5 trillion. The cost of that delay amounts to three-fourths of the total global GDP we could potentially lose to COVID-19 this year.” – McKinsey

It is the mission of Women in Travel Thrive to prevent the potential regression of women in travel by acting now. Those interested in networking with others or learning about more of our events to support this cause can visit www.womenintravelthrive.com.

In addition to creating meaningful connections through mentorship, THRIVE is a non-profit organization that will accept donations to support funding these impactful networking events, but also to generate scholarship funds to support individual career coaching, resume writing, and other services that assist job seekers. Donations are being acceptedhere.