There is strength in numbers and when you bring women travelers together, there's a ripple effect of impact
an online magazine dedicated to chronicling the African Renaissance. Through her platform, she created a community of Africans living in the diaspora who wanted to connect with the continent and understand it better. By creating content that was able to bridge the gap between those two communities, the idea for Girls Trip Tours was born.
As a global traveler herself, Popo already saw the challenges of solo female travel. “I knew if I wanted to bring people to the continent, I had an opportunity to focus on women and create a more interesting experience.” The goal was to bring the magazine alive and create opportunities for women to visit the continent. By facilitating solo female travel in Africa, Popo is curating a female-driven ecosystem that can host or guide explorers.
Girls Trip Tours is focused on female empowerment and hosts trips to various destinations in Africa where travelers can take in the sights and have authentic experiences with high profile business women and local industry leaders. Their uniquely curated trips allow women from all over the world to safely explore an African city with confidence and purpose, all while supporting local women.
As one of the founding editors of Women Who Travel, Arikoglu oversees the vertical and co-hosts the podcast. While acknowledging that travel is a luxury for many, Arikoglu said the Facebook group, which has 150,000 members, and meet-ups are completely accessible to any woman. “The internet makes the world feel so much smaller and so much more accessible,” said Arikoglu.
By building communities that are inclusive, each of these founders has tapped into an innate desire for women to share, learn, inspire and encourage one another. And since knowledge is power, the real takeaway is how much
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