• What is Womentravel New Zealand?
• Goals of Womentravel New Zealand?
• What Women Travel NZ is not!
• Who is behind Women Travel?
• Why Focus on Women and Travel?

What is womentravel.co.nz?

Women Travel NZ was set up in 2000 to provide a way of advertising the growing number of women-owned and run businesses offering accommodation, adventures, tour and retreats for women to discover the magic and unique environment of Aotearoa/ New Zealand.

These are mostly small women-run businesses. Some are for women only, a few are for lesbians only and some welcome everyone, while catering especially for the needs of the woman traveller.

Since 2000 we have revamped the WTnz website 5 times, and have introduced the other websites that you see on the right.

Goals of womentravel.co.nz

To establish and market a NZ based web site consisting of a network of operators offering travel opportunities which are particularly welcoming of women and attuned to their needs.

The site may also include a few businesses which while not necessarily women run, offer something unique to the woman traveller.

We are committed to providing women-run tourism ventures with

• a web site they can be proud to be a part of
• a web site which is actively marketed on the web and in non web media
• management which is responsive to operators needs
• regular feedback on the site to operators

We are committed to giving women travellers access to travel opportunities in New Zealand which offer:

• warm and generous hospitality
• local information to make any trip the richer
• safely managed adventure trips
• environmentally friendly practices
• environments free from harassment of any kind
• respect for Maori as the original people of this land
• management which is responsive to the needs of women travellers

What women Travel is not...

• we are not a travel agent
• we do not run tours or accommodation
• we do not take bookings or commission
• we are not a google advertising site
• we do not list everyone who wants to be listed

We exist simply to let women know in an independent way of all the great opportunities for women travellers that exist - you contact the businesses directly.  You are in charge.

The face behind womentravel.co.nz...

Rosemary Neave lives in the small village of Waipu in Northland, New Zealand, nearby to Northlands fabulous beaches. 

In 2000 Rosemary Neave and her partner Ngaire Brader, built Waihoihoi Lodge, a unique women's bed and breakfast in Waipu, one and a half hours north of Auckland.

"Once I got involved in women's tourism, I soon saw the need to build a network to connect all the opportunities for women in New Zealand. There are some great places, but how do women find them.

I describe myself as a networker - I love putting people in touch with each other, with information and with ideas.  So Women Travel NZ was born. " - Rosemary

• Website: Rosemary discovered the internet and Women Travel was born, she teamed up with local webdesigner Jan Malone of Action Web for Women Travel NZ and the World.
• Blogging: In 2008 Rosemary discovered blogging Web 2. as a way of sharing information on the web, she teamed up with Jo Couchman of Creative Web Designs
• Twitter:  in 2010 the world of Twitter emerged and Rosemary began to network women travel with Twitter

As well as networking women travellers, Rosemary:

• sells Real Estate with Bream Bay Realty in Waipu
• helps you to get Word Press Blog/web system with her business Web2Blog
• she is also bvery involved in her local community organising events and hosting a local promotional website for  Bream Bay

Marybeth Bond  - the Gutsy Traveller offers some Statistics

about Women Travellers

Why Focus on

Women and Travel?

Here is a excerpt from her site:

With 32 million trips taken last year, U.S. women — young, old, single, married, divorced, widowed, mothers, daughters and sisters — have become a driving force in the travel industry. Estimates are that women will spend some $125 billion on travel in the next year.
80% of all travel decisions are made by women

Regardless of :

• who they travel with
• who pays for the trip
• or where they go

A woman is the decision maker.

Women -- young, old, single, married, and widowed are fueling an explosive growth in the travel industry.

Read More of MaryBeth's statistics here