80% of women travellers are choosing to travel solo

Eighty per cent of women travellers are choosing to travel solo every year, while bookings by groups are also growing steadily by 50 per cent year-on-year, highlighted Zostel – a community-led, experience-driven.

Solo travellers – across all genders – made 37 per cent of the total bookings it received in 2019, while 42 per cent of travellers preferred to travel in groups. It also cited millennials and couples (21 per cent) as the top travellers in the past year.

"It makes us incredibly hopeful and even more proud to see so many women taking a leap of faith to explore diverse destinations during solo travels.

It validates the path we consciously chose to follow to create a safe and free environment for everyone to experience travel, especially for our female travellers," Dharamveer Singh Chouhan, Co-founder & CEO Zostel said.