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Women in Travel sets up new forum for global audience

Destinations
Jennifer Morris
6 December 2019

The first International Women in Travel & Tourism Forum will take place in Iceland in January, with 60 industry chief delegates each asked to bring a female “future leader” in a bid to foster “real reflection and exchange of experiences and thoughts”.

Alessandra Alonso, founder of Women in Travel

Women in travel CIC founder Alessandra Alonso

The forum, for which TTG Media is media partner, is targeted at those passionate about tackling gender imbalance in the workplace.


It was set up after Alessandra Alonso, founder of Women in Travel (CIC), chaired a WTM London 2018 panel debate celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage.


She was joined by Eliza Reid, the First Lady of Iceland (also a United Nations special ambassador for tourism); Zina Bencheikh, regional general manager for Europe, Middle East and North Africa at Peak DMC; and Jo Phillips, chief people officer at Carnival UK.