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Pauline Andre’s startup GlobeSisters is a hospitality exchange platform tailored for women. Andre shared about her own past experiences and answered a series of questions about what compelled her to start the company, what she’s learned on the entrepreneurship journey, and where she hopes to take the business. Women Leading Travel & Hospitality: What made...
I get asked a lot, “What do you wish you would have known a few years ago that you know now?” OMG. Soooooo many things. When I started my business, the pandemic hit literally two months later. Awesome timing, right? We were living in a new city. I had no friends. I had no network...
Christina Rice, founder of OMNoire, a global wellness brand for Black women and women of color, spoke at last week’s Women Leading Travel & Hospitality Virtual Exchange about her career journey as a serial entrepreneur. Rice is a health and wellness creative, as well as a certified yoga and meditation instructor. Having launched her first...
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, the world’s largest hotel franchising company with more than 8,900 hotels in 95-plus countries, announced July 13 BOLD by Wyndham, a new program designed to engage and advance more Black entrepreneurs on their path to hotel ownership. Developed with insight and support from existing and aspiring Black hoteliers, BOLD, which stands...
In this clip from Women Leading Travel & Hospitality’s May Virtual Exchange, Peggy Berg and Tracy Prigmore talk about taking the leap into hotel ownership and risk-taking, as well as the different paths for making business deals. Berg co-chairs Fortuna’s Table, an initiative enabling women to build their balance sheets through hotel ownership. She also...
If you’re like many investors, you’re probably putting money into funds that own stocks, bonds, commodities and other assets from all over the world. That’s good, because history has shown that investing in the markets is one of the best ways to grow your money and reach long-term financial goals. But have you ever taken...
Shelma Jun, founder and managing director of Flash Foxy and creator of the Women’s Climbing Festival, has a goal to make all women feel welcome in the outdoor rock climbing space. Flash Foxy began as an online platform in 2014 to celebrate women climbing with women as well as to be a place where women...
Habitats by Kat (HBK) co-founders Kat Friedman and Sam Heyer are consultant members of Women Leading Travel & Hospitality. HBK is a travel entrepreneur (“travelpreneur”) community providing the necessary platforms for those interested in building their own travel business and brand at an affordable cost. It’s the first travel community that focuses on real estate....
Vicki Bjerke-Schuur, a travel industry veteran, is the founder and president of FerskTech, a business travel SaaS company reinventing corporate travel sourcing technology. With more than 25 years experience in the industry, Bjerke-Schuur has a background in sourcing and managing hotel programs for TMC clients, delivering analytical support for corporate clients, and building supplier partnerships....
I found myself in the travel industry through necessity, as a self-proclaimed “fearful flyer,” psychologist, and entrepreneur. Getting here has been an adventure. My educational and professional career started out in clinical psychology. I had always been drawn to psychology and driven to help people cultivate more joy. Growing up I never dreamed of traveling....
