Did you know that in 2019, there were a total of 334 million people employed in the global tourism and travel industry, and approximately 54% of these employees are women?
And yet, fewer than 30% of senior managers in tourism and travel enterprises are women. And a pay disparity gap is often prevalent, meaning that women are paid less than men for the same work.
This is according to the World Tourism and Travel Council (WTTC), which recently launched the Women’s Empowerment Initiative. The objectives of the Initiative include:
Increase female representation in the private sector to 30-50% in leadership positions and achieve at least 30% representation of women on board levels and c-suites, by 2030;
Invest to increase and deepen programmes that develop skills and opportunities among women by creating formal sponsorship and mentorship programmes, and assign a senior ex- ecutive or Board member to be a sponsor for gender diversity and inclusion, who is accountable for progress;
Identify opportunities to reduce gender pay gaps, if existing, and implement gender diverse slate requirement for all open roles.
At Nina Techologies, we respect and honour the role of women in tourism and travel. We fully support the WTTC Women's Empowerment Initiative and have taken these recommendations into account in our work work.
We wish all our clients, colleagues and friends a Happy International Women’s Day 2023!
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