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Here’s how Air Canada, Perception, AmaWaterways & Intrepid are celebrating Global Women’s Working day

TORONTO — The journey field is celebrating International Women’s Day currently, with a number of best suppliers marking the occasion by showcasing the social and cultural achievements of ladies.

Air Canada, Perception Vacations, AmaWaterways and Intrepid Travel are all saluting the contributions of ladies in the market right now, March 8, a worldwide day of recognition to enable progress women’s rights and elevate consciousness of gender equality. Celebrated given that 1910 at an Worldwide Conference of Performing Females in Copenhagen, Intercontinental Women’s Working day 2021 can take on the concept of #ChooseToChallenge, a immediate phone to everyone to select a gender-equivalent planet.

Soon after a 12 months of unparalleled problems in the travel field, the management and ingenuity of gals in particular maintain extra significance right now. Here’s how Air Canada, Insight Holidays, AmaWaterways and Intrepid Vacation are commemorating the working day:

 


 

AIR CANADA

The airline is recognizing the achievements of 4 Air Canadian ladies who have productively navigated as a result of the troubles of the COVID-19 pandemic. As aspect of Air Canada’s efforts to promote non-traditional aviation careers, it founded the Captain Judy Cameron Scholarship in honour of the airline’s initial female pilot. The scholarship is open to youthful women of all ages pursuing non-traditional aviation occupations these kinds of as industrial pilots or aircraft servicing engineers who may well not have the money implies to do so.

This year’s winners are: Kahina Gagnon, Urooz Ali, Winnie Ho and Caitlyn Lam. Every single of the winners will obtain $5,000 toward their studies in aviation all four are also pursuing their commercial pilot’s licence.

Arielle Meloul-Wechsler, Executive Vice President Main Human Sources Officer and General public Affairs at Air Canada famous that women of all ages hold experienced positions at every single degree at Air Canada, which includes C-suite executives, and that the airline credits the significant contributions of women for getting remedies that are aiding it meet up with COVID-19’s complexities.

“Women operated repatriation flights to bring Canadians home, taken care of the logistics of and operated cargo-only flights to transport health care suppliers, PPE and vaccines, skilled as loadmasters to operate transformed cargo-only plane, liaised all over the clock with federal government agencies to carry out dynamic journey limits, developed and carried out health care assist services to assist Air Canada’s frontline staff, assumed crucial leadership positions to advance sensible, science-primarily based tests measures as element of a multi-layered approach to managing COVID-19, in addition to offering purchaser service to our clients who essential to travel and substantially a lot more,” mentioned Meloul-Wechsler. “We are happy to be regarded for our management in advancing range, and for advertising and marketing and mentoring the upcoming era of female aviators.”

Air Canada has exceeded its earlier set up targets to have gals signify at the very least 30% of senior administration by 2020 and to have at minimum 30% of its Board of Directors comprised of female. It was also not too long ago recognized for the sixth consecutive yr as 1 of Canada’s ideal range companies.

 


 

Insight Vacations

To link female travellers with females artisans, business owners and group leaders, Perception has released a new 12-day quality guided journey, ‘Venice & The Croatian Coast, A Women’s-Only Tour’ as part of its ‘Wander Women’ series of journeys designed for women of all ages, by women. The very first women’s-only vacation, ‘Inspirational India,’ was introduced final yr and is set to depart in Oct 2021 it at this time has scheduling availability.

The new Croatia journey will choose spot in summer months 2022 and contain a few new #MakeTravelMatter Experiences made to uplift regional women of all ages in their communities and assure Perception is utilizing vacation as a pressure for superior whilst supporting the United Nations’ World-wide Aims.

#MakeTravelMatter Activities manifest practically almost each working day of the journey, which starts in Venice and ventures throughout the Dalmatian coastline. These encounters involve a brief boat journey to a fish farm with Irena Fonda, a renowned molecular biologist doing work to protect the indigenous species of the Gulf of Piran, a go to to the workshop of DESA, a humanitarian organization that assists ladies and their family members market their traditional cuisine and handicrafts, and a fulfill-and-greet with artist Antonia Ruskovic Radonic, who is functioning to preserve local 15th-century silk traditions. Also, in the Plitvice Lakes area, friends will meet the hardworking women of all ages of the Tara Neighborhood Centre who by way of their common handicrafts, empower work and neighborhood engagement.

‘Venice & The Croatian Coast, A Women’s-Only Tour’ is offered with minimal area as a single departure day. Consumers are encouraged to reserve early to secure their spot.

 


 

AMAWATERWAYS

AmaWaterways is hosting a distinctive ‘Sip & Sail’ today in celebration of Intercontinental Women’s Working day with Executive Vice President Kristin Karst, who’ll be joined by Samantha Brown, AmaMagna’s Emmy award-successful Godmother, and Chef Joanne Weir. Having spot at 5 p.m. EST/2 p.m. PST, the virtual celebration will involve own insights into travel and tourism as perfectly as insider suggestions from female cruise professionals on how very best to personalize a river cruise for any form of traveller.

1st introduced in April 2020, the digital ‘Sip & Sail’ collection was created to assistance AmaWaterways keep on being personally linked with vacation advisors and past guests until the company’s much anticipated return to the rivers. Its genuine onboard complimentary ‘Sip & Sail’ pre-supper cocktail hour was to start with launched on its ships in 2018 and has acquired rave visitor critiques.

To tune into today’s ‘Sip & Sail’ go to Facebook.com/AmaWaterways or YouTube.com/AmaWaterways. Vacation advisors are inspired to indication up for the even by using the Travel Advisor Portal on AmaWaterways.com.

 


 

INTREPID Vacation

Intrepid Journey, the world’s greatest B Corp journey vacation corporation, is celebrating the groundbreaking initiatives led by 3 of its feminine team members who are striving towards a extra equitable tourism sector in 2021:

Here’s how Air Canada, Insight, AmaWaterways & Intrepid are celebrating International Women’s Day

Dr. Susanne Etti

  • Susanne Etti, Intrepid’s Environmental Affect Specialist: As a person of travel’s only feminine local weather researchers, Dr. Etti led Intrepid Vacation to declare a Climate Emergency in January 2020, underpinned by a seven-point local climate system that integrated location emission reduction targets centered on science as effectively as empowering girls. In April 2020, Dr. Etti published an open up-sourced guide to decarbonizing your vacation business that has been downloaded by about 180 firms, and has considering the fact that executed in excess of 50 cost-free consultations.
Here’s how Air Canada, Insight, AmaWaterways & Intrepid are celebrating International Women’s Day

Zina Bencheikh

  • Zina Bencheikh, Intrepid Travel’s controlling director in EMEA: Hailing from Morocco, Bencheikh spent virtually five decades successfully lobbying the community Moroccan authorities to include women of all ages in the authorities-regulated tour manual licencing plan. From there, she was the driver behind Intrepid Travel’s Women’s Expeditions, which released in 2018 and has become one particular of the company’s most productive vary of tours in its record. Launching currently, March 8, Bencheikh is primary Intrepid in collaborating with social company ‘Women in Travel’ on three-working day tours in London, created to empower immigrant women from tricky backgrounds. The females, who are from Ethiopia, Morocco and Albania, will share tales about their customs and traditions.
Here’s how Air Canada, Insight, AmaWaterways & Intrepid are celebrating International Women’s Day

Natalie Kidd

  • Natalie Kidd, Intrepid’s Chief Folks and Intent Officer: Kidd has led Intrepid’s gender diversity ambitions across 20 international officers and championed the improvement of local functions groups and tour leaders. Her get the job done consists of aiding double the business’ woman tour leaders from 154 in 2017 to a lot more than 342 in 2020. Kidd carries on to guide Intrepid’s diversity and inclusion endeavours that incorporate mandatory anti-racism coaching produced in 2020. Going forward, she’ll direct the organization to function with its 200 major suppliers to create alternatives and improve workplace methods for women.