Hi,
We’re Mar and Meg and we are the co-founders of Solo Female Travelers, a movement of women supporting women through travel around the world.
Our motivation is simple: We saw something we didn’t like and decided to change it.
Welcome to a world of empowerment, friendships, adventures, new experiences and a love for discovering the world in a meaningful way, one that is ethical, that has a long term commitment to the host communities and that creates opportunities for women through the travel and tourism industry.
We are passionate about seeing women thrive and this is why we started our women-only tours.
We would love to take you on handcrafted trips of a lifetime that spotlight and support local women at the places we visit.
We are obsessed with designing thoughtful itineraries that become unforgettable memories and help change the travel industry into a more equitable one for women.
Ready for a great time? See all our tours here.
Solo Female Travelers timeline
Here is a brief timeline of our evolution since we started as an online community.
2015: Our origins
Created in 2015, Solo Female Travelers was the first Facebook Group for women who travel solo, and in a short 11 years, has become a global movement, an international community of 520,000 women, from 100 countries around the world.
Beginning of 2020: Exponential growth
During the pandemic, most of us could not travel, but we continued to dream about it and talk about previous trips.
Our community was the perfect place to find likeminded solo travelers, so we saw exponential growth.
Most women joined with surprised, not realising that the number of women traveling solo was so large, and the sense of camaraderie and the joy of sharing a passion for discovering the world brought almost 100,000 women to the group in the first few months of the pandemic.
Meg and I managed the community remotely, from Singapore and Australia and created this website as a repository of solo female travel advice.
We also launched our Instagram profile, YouTube channel and Facebook page.
End of 2020: The Solo Female Travelers Survey
In December of 2020, 5,000 women took part in the first Solo Female Travel Trends Survey, a pioneering global survey that helped shed more light on the solo female travel experience.
This has become the largest, longest-running, and most comprehensive global research study on solo female travel trends, preferences and behaviors published, and is is available for free to travel companies and destinations with the hope that they will use it to better understand our needs and challenges and serve us better.
2021: Our women-only tours, plus the media started to notice
In April of 2021, we launched our women-only, women-focused and led tours with our first tours being to Iceland and Tanzania in October and November of 2021. These remain some of the most popular tours we offer.
We were also admitted to Facebook’s Communities Accelerator and received additional funding as global finalists. This credentials, visibility and funding allowed us to expand out team with a Social media Manager and a Community Manager.
Meg also had her wonderful son as our first Tanzania tour came to an end and we started 2022 with a new range of tours to destinations like Barcelona & Catalunya, Tuscany, Amalfi, Venice, and Morocco.
As travel returned, media outlets around the world started to notice the boom in solo travel. As advocates and prominent industry leaders in the space, we were interviewed by online and print magazines, radio and TV stations around the world. From The New York Times to the BBC and beyond.
Solo female travel saw a renaissance and a renewed interest.
Women decided it was our time to not wait for anyone and make our dreams come true. Be it that trip to Tuscany their husband had always promised, the adventure of a lifetime in Iceland to see the northern lights or the safari of their dreams, women were waiting no more.
The new wave of travelers are women going it alone.
2022: Photographers and European take over
In 2022, we hosted tours that celebrated life, great food, summer weather and long days in the sun. We took guests on boat rides in the Amalfi Coast, Venice’s canals, Montenegro’s coast and savoured the best wines in Barcelona, Tuscany and Morocco.
We also ventured afar, with a unique tour to Sudan that took place before the civil war broke out. To date, this remains the most meaningful tour we have ever been on.
Many of our tours were accompanied by our first professional photographers, an added perk of our tours that hopes to convince guests to be present in the moment and not see a trip through their cameras and phones.
In September, the community reached 200,000 members and our email newsletter 25,000 subscribers.
2023: 500 guests traveled with us and Meg & Mar met in person
This was the year Meg and Mar could finally meet in person.
After year of closed borders and motherhood, Meg traveled to Spain and they both met at the start of our Barcelona tour and they both traveled to Greece to co-host the tour.
This was also a milestone year.
In less than 24 months since launch, we hosted our 500th guest on tour, a fantastic achievement for a dream that started during the pandemic, by two co-founders who couldn’t meet, and a passionate and remote global team.
We also hosted a fully sol-out Kilimanjaro climb that was the envy of the mountain. A team made of almost 80 women between porters, guests and guides, climbing Africa’s tallest mountain and setting a role model for more Tanzanian girls to join the travel industry if they want.
This wonderful project we started in 2021 was captured by our videographer in 2025.
Solo Female Travelers has never invested in marketing and our growth has always been through repeat guests, referrals from previous guess and our channels.
2024: Continued growth and expansion
In 2023 and 2024, our community continued to grow as did our range of tours.
We added more destinations in Africa and Asia such as Egypt, Bali and Australia, which both Meg and Mar co-hosted.
We also expanded our presence in the Americas with two 100% female focused and led tours to Cuba and Oaxaca, which celebrated the new year in style
The BBC reached out for an interview for a BBC World News segment which aired across the world for a week and was projected in airports, hotels and televisions globally.
We hosted our
2025: 1,000 guests, global expansion and 100th Anniversary celebration
We started 2025 with a count of almost 1,000 women having traveled with us, tours to more than 25 destinations and dozens of female guides hosting our guests on incredible tours of a lifetime
This was also the year our online community turned 10 years old, and we knew we had to celebrate big, so we decided to charter a 100-passenger luxury yacht to island hop in the Caribbean in 2027.
We will continue to offer this tour, with a different set of islands every other year, because there is always a reason to celebrate life!
We also launched several once in a lifetime trips to Ecuador & The Galapagos and Antarctica, which have become epic adventures making a bi-annual appearance on our tour calendar. Following the success of our combined Ecuador & The Galapagos tour, we also launched a Galapagos sailing only.
2026: Podcast and 2,000 guests
2026 is yet to end, but we are booked to reach another incredible moment: Host 2,500 women by the end of the year.
In the spring, we launched our podcast. We had wanted to have another avenue to continue advocating for women in travel and having the conversations nobody wants to have and the newsletter was not enough. A podcast had been in the making since the end of 2024 but we finally decided to commit to it in 2025 for a launch in 2026.