I was having a conversation about travel with my sibling and we came across this topic. We both have noticed that women seem to travel way more than men, or at least are considerably more interested in travel than men. After discussing it, I went to Google to see if that was just us being funny. I found this Forbes article detailing how we are definitely correct.
The average (U.S.) traveler is a 47 year old woman, as much as 80% of travel decisions are made by women, and on the global scale, the ratio of female to male travelers is 64% to 36%. Further in the article, a lady who is trying to be the first black woman to visit every single country(over 150 countries visited and runs her own travel agency) says most male travelers she meets are gay, and she mainly encounters straight men in her travels if they’re with their girlfriend/wife who planned the trip. I know that’s only one experienced traveler’s experience but I still find that interesting. In my experience, it seems like every woman on a dating app has a picture of some sort of international travel, regardless of age and I just wonder how they afford that when they’re in college where you’re typically broke. Recently over the holidays, I met up with a high school friend of mine who hangs out with her neighbor now. He’s a bit stereotypical but we briefly talked about traveling the country at one point and he said he doesn’t give a shit about seeing anything in any city here or there, doesn’t give a shit about seeing any of the skyscrapers in NYC, the space needle in Seattle, the beaches in Miami, the culture of New Orleans, the national parks, etc. he only cares about his job which runs him into the ground.
So why is travel such a gender-split thing? I enjoy travel as a male and I’ve exclusively done solo travel outside of a group-sponsored trip when I was in school so I made the decisions and made the plans. I find this vast disparity to be insane. What’s the deal with that?
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r/NoStupidQuestions I was having a conversation about travel with my sibling and we came across this topic. We both have noticed that women seem to travel way more than men, or at least are considerably more interested in travel than men. After discussing it, I went to Google to see if that was just us being funny. I found this Forbes article detailing how we are definitely correct. The average (U.S.) traveler is a 47 year old woman, as much as 80% of travel decisions are made by women, and on the global scale, the ratio of female to male travelers is 64% to 36%. Further in the article, a lady who is trying to be the first black woman to visit every single country(over 150 countries visited and runs her own travel agency) says most male travelers she meets are gay, and she mainly encounters straight men in her travels if they’re with their girlfriend/wife who planned the trip. I know that’s only one experienced traveler’s experience but I still find that interesting. In my experience, it seems like every woman on a dating app has a picture of some sort of international travel, regardless of age and I just wonder how they afford that when they’re in college where you’re typically broke. Recently over the holidays, I met up with a high school friend of mine who hangs out with her neighbor now. He’s a bit stereotypical but we briefly talked about traveling the country at one point and he said he doesn’t give a shit about seeing anything in any city here or there, doesn’t give a shit about seeing any of the skyscrapers in NYC, the space needle in Seattle, the beaches in Miami, the culture of New Orleans, the national parks, etc. he only cares about his job which runs him into the ground. So why is travel such a gender-split thing? I enjoy travel as a male and I’ve exclusively done solo travel outside of a group-sponsored trip when I was in school so I made the decisions and made the plans. I find this vast disparity to be insane. What’s the deal with that? submitted by /u/ImagineWagons969 [link] [comments]
I was having a conversation about travel with my sibling and we came across this topic. We both have noticed that women seem to travel way more than men, or at least are considerably more interested in travel than men. After discussing it, I went to Google to see if that was just us being funny. I found this Forbes article detailing how we are definitely correct.
The average (U.S.) traveler is a 47 year old woman, as much as 80% of travel decisions are made by women, and on the global scale, the ratio of female to male travelers is 64% to 36%. Further in the article, a lady who is trying to be the first black woman to visit every single country(over 150 countries visited and runs her own travel agency) says most male travelers she meets are gay, and she mainly encounters straight men in her travels if they’re with their girlfriend/wife who planned the trip. I know that’s only one experienced traveler’s experience but I still find that interesting. In my experience, it seems like every woman on a dating app has a picture of some sort of international travel, regardless of age and I just wonder how they afford that when they’re in college where you’re typically broke. Recently over the holidays, I met up with a high school friend of mine who hangs out with her neighbor now. He’s a bit stereotypical but we briefly talked about traveling the country at one point and he said he doesn’t give a shit about seeing anything in any city here or there, doesn’t give a shit about seeing any of the skyscrapers in NYC, the space needle in Seattle, the beaches in Miami, the culture of New Orleans, the national parks, etc. he only cares about his job which runs him into the ground.
So why is travel such a gender-split thing? I enjoy travel as a male and I’ve exclusively done solo travel outside of a group-sponsored trip when I was in school so I made the decisions and made the plans. I find this vast disparity to be insane. What’s the deal with that?
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