Launched at the Daily Telegraph Destinations holiday and travel show (in London, February 2005 and Birmingham, March 2005), Diverse Traveller - a friendly, personal and non-discriminatory community for women travellers world-wide. DiverseTraveller.com is owned, published and edited by me...Ola Fagbohun (twitter: diversetraveler).
Picture: In a voodoo garden, Republic of Benin
I am not a professional travel editor, journalist or writer; I am like you, a woman who is passionate about travel and travelling. I was bitten by the travel-bug at the age of ten on my first real trip away from home - the Isle of White. Although a long way from that girl of ten, travel (U.K. & abroad) has very much shaped who I am as well as provided the inspiration for Diverse Traveller.
For many years, I have shared my travel experiences with friends and family, plus strangers met while waiting for a bus or a train; so many different women - diverse backgrounds with diverse experiences. Sharing travel experiences is a real ice-breaker, in fact I have made many a good friend this way.
Picture: Oklahoma History centre, USA.
I was having so much fun sharing my passion for travel with so many other women travellers, that I wanted to encourage others to do the same. The result - Diverse Traveller and my travel blog www.olasworld.com.
So what is Diverse Traveller (DT.com):
DT.com provides diverse women (travellers plus those dreaming about travelling) with a forum to come together to share diverse travel experiences from around the UK and abroad through short travel stories.
DT.com is not just for the solo travellers, it is for ALL women travellers; irrespective of how YOU like to travel.
Who are Diverse Travellers?
Diverse Travellers......
* reside in the UK (93%) [survey of U.K. based women only]
* aged 25-44 years old (41%) [30% aged 35-44 years]
* single (46%) [39% married or living together]
* holds a first degree (48%)
* do not have children (84%) [11% have children aged under 16 years]
* work full-time (73%) [16% are self employed]
* regularly (41%) visit the Daily Telegraph Destinations Travel Show
* visit Diverse Traveller to read personal travel stories by other women (59%).
* promote by word of mouth - nearly one in five (18%) visited DT.com as a result of a referral or a link from a friend.
* love to travel abroad, getting away 3-4 times a year (41%), mostly with a spouse or partner (38%) [24% travel alone].
* travel around the UK 1-2 times a year (34%), again travelling with a spouse or partner [12% travel with female friends]... and editor at diversetraveller.com there's more.
Source: Diverse Traveller Reader Survey 2008. Based on 296 readers.
To part in the latest DT.com survey, or for further information about our results, please editor at diversetraveller.com.
The women travellers who share their travel experiences on DT.com do so in a variety of ways - through personal stories, travel tips, poetry, and lots more.
I hope you'll find Diverse Traveller an inspiring destination, a place to explore the world around you and beyond.
Enjoy Diverse Traveller. It is your community, one that is evolving daily.
Please continue to send us your contributions and editor at diversetraveller.com.
Anything published on DiverseTraveller by DiverseTraveller Authors and / contributors is subject to Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales, UK: Scotland and the United States licence.