Women-owned Travel Business

WOMEN-OWNED TRAVEL BUSINESS

Discover woman-owned stays and experiences around the world ✌🏻

TRAppe is woman-owned.

So is every business on this page.

Safari operators in Africa, food tours through the Basque Country, cultural experiences in Stockholm and so many more women-led experiences across 20+ countries.

Book direct with the women who built them.

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100% of what you spend stays with the people and the destination.

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Women-owned travel businesses don't always get the visibility they deserve on the usual booking platforms. We went looking so you don't have to ☺︎

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Tailor-made wildlife and cultural journeys through Madagascar with guides who've spent their lives in it. Low-impact orangutan treks through North Sumatra's jungle, built around conservation rather than spectacle. Indigenous-led safaris across Tanzania where the stories behind the landscape are as much the point as the landscape itself.

This is what 20+ countries of women-owned and women-led travel looks like on TRAppe. The farmhouse in Romania, the island in French Polynesia, the jungle in Sumatra. The women who built stays and experiences worth travelling for, in places worth going to.

A luxury agritourism farmstay in rural Romania. A family-run guesthouse on Huahine, one of French Polynesia's quieter islands, where the ocean is right there and the community is the experience. Maria in Santorini who'll take you past the blue domes and into the vineyards and village life that the Instagram version of the island never shows you.

Custom journeys through the Baltic States with people who call it home. Community-led adventures deep into Borneo's Kiulu Valley with the Dusun tribe.

FAQs

A women-owned travel business is a tour operator, stay or experience where the founder or majority owner is a woman, not just a company that employs women or markets to them. On TRAppe, it means your booking goes directly to a female founder, not a platform taking a cut.
Not always. Women-owned means the business is majority owned by a woman. Women-led means women are in leadership or guiding roles but ownership may sit elsewhere.
On TRAppe, both are featured, XperienceSthlm in Stockholm is majority women-led, while Steri Tours in Kenya, Meran Gorilla Tours and Maromi Safaris in Uganda and Topa Food Tours in Spain.
The collection spans stays and tours across more than 20 countries. Slow travel routes through Finland, jungle treks in Borneo and Sumatra, a craft workshop in Madeira, a holistic B&B in Sicily, family-run guesthouses in French Polynesia and Goa, e-bike tours in Hawaii and the UK, wildlife journeys through Madagascar and Tanzania, and an eco stay in rural Thailand.
No, these are businesses owned or led by women, open to everyone. If you're looking for women-only group tours or trips designed specifically for female travellers, that's a different category.
Because your money goes directly to the person who built it. Every listing on TRAppe is booked direct, no commission to a platform, no middleman markup. What you pay goes straight to the founder.
We verify directly before anything makes the page. Every business on TRAppe is vetted by us, not aggregated from a third-party directory. If a listing says women-owned, it's because we know the founder personally and because TRAppe is women-owned itself, it's a standard we take seriously.
Yes, from accessible day experiences like Topa Food Tours in the Basque Country, the Wicker It craft workshop in Madeira and XperienceSthlm in Stockholm, through to higher-end safari and gorilla trekking experiences in Uganda and Kenya. Each listing shows a price range so you can filter by what works for you.
Yes! We're actively growing this collection. If you run or know of a women-owned travel business that should be here, we'd love to hear from you.

A women-owned travel business is a tour operator, stay or experience where the founder or majority owner is a woman, not just a company that employs women or markets to them. On TRAppe, it means your booking goes directly to a female founder, not a platform taking a cut.
The collection spans stays and tours across more than 20 countries. Slow travel routes through Finland, jungle treks in Borneo and Sumatra, a craft workshop in Madeira, a holistic B&B in Sicily, family-run guesthouses in French Polynesia and Goa, e-bike tours in Hawaii and the UK, wildlife journeys through Madagascar and Tanzania, and an eco stay in rural Thailand.
Because your money goes directly to the person who built it. Every listing on TRAppe is booked direct, no commission to a platform, no middleman markup. What you pay goes straight to the founder.
Yes, from accessible day experiences like Topa Food Tours in the Basque Country, the Wicker It craft workshop in Madeira and XperienceSthlm in Stockholm, through to higher-end safari and gorilla trekking experiences in Uganda and Kenya. Each listing shows a price range so you can filter by what works for you.

Not always. Women-owned means the business is majority owned by a woman. Women-led means women are in leadership or guiding roles but ownership may sit elsewhere.
On TRAppe, both are featured, XperienceSthlm in Stockholm is majority women-led, while Steri Tours in Kenya, Meran Gorilla Tours and Maromi Safaris in Uganda and Topa Food Tours in Spain.
No, these are businesses owned or led by women, open to everyone. If you're looking for women-only group tours or trips designed specifically for female travellers, that's a different category.
We verify directly before anything makes the page. Every business on TRAppe is vetted by us, not aggregated from a third-party directory. If a listing says women-owned, it's because we know the founder personally and because TRAppe is women-owned itself, it's a standard we take seriously.
Yes! We're actively growing this collection. If you run or know of a women-owned travel business that should be here, we'd love to hear from you.

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