{"id":2857,"date":"2024-02-24T12:04:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T20:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2024-02-24T20:20:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T04:20:22","slug":"old-news-more-women-embracing-independence-of-solo-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/02\/24\/old-news-more-women-embracing-independence-of-solo-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Old news: &#8220;More women embracing independence of solo travel&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/travel\/news\/more-women-embracing-independence-of-solo-travel\/ar-BB1hUH26?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=U531&amp;cvid=e8285c30b5cb45779d10c1ba62760179&amp;ei=179\">More women embracing independence of solo travel (msn.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This goes back to years ago &#8211; this is not a new trend:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&nbsp;In the U.S., women dominate leisure travel by a 63% to 37% ratio over men. Worldwide there is a similar skew, with 64% of global travelers being female, versus 36% male, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rvandplaya.com\/travel-statistics-by-gender-facts-trends-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RV and Playa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2022\/12\/11\/why-do-women-like-to-travel-more-than-men-a-lot-more\/\">Why Do Women Like To Travel More Than Men? *A LOT MORE* \u2013 Coldstreams Travel and Global Thinking<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also &#8211; reminder &#8211; there are rarely stories from the media about solo male travelers, a demographic that has been mostly erased from travel media. (See Parts 1 and 2 of the myth that Americans can move abroad for many examples. Also, just did a search on YouTube for &#8220;Move Abroad&#8221;, and found similar skewed results).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old news. Women have outnumbered men in travel by about 2 to 1 for a very long time. This is old news packaged as if it were a new trend; it&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}