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Why embracing a ‘neurospicy’ workplace could help businesses flourish

Responsible business
Katherine Masters
23 June 2023

The travel industry should actively embrace neurodiversity with their recruitment strategies. This was the key message from a discussion at the International Women in Travel & Tourism Forum on Thursday (22 June).

If you fail to understand neurodiversity, you could be turning away potential clients

"Neurodiversity means we all have different minds; we think in different ways and work in different ways.”

Four neurodiverse panellists shared their lived experiences and tips for travel businesses with moderator Lindsay Garvey-Jones, national sales manager, Holiday Extras and chair, AWTE at the event held at Google HQ in London.

Caroline Clark, product leader with start-ups and scale-ups across industries, was recently diagnosed with autism, prompted by her watching Christine McGuinness’ BBC documentary Unmasking my autism.