More And More Solo Traveling Women Abroad, This Is The Reason

JAKARTA - Traveling alone or solo traveling is now increasingly popular and is being carried out by many people. Interestingly, solo traveling activities abroad are now increasingly being carried out by women.

Quoting from The Guardian, on Tuesday, October 7, 2025, tour company Jules Verne reported that solo travelers accounted for 46 percent of the total performance for next year's travel schedule. This figure is up 40 percent from 2023.

Interestingly, almost 70 percent of these solo tourists are women. Many women choose to go solo not because they don't have a family or a partner, but because they want to enjoy the world in their own way.

Many of our customers have an active social life, a partner, and even children. But they value the freedom to explore according to their own wishes," said Jules Verne's Managing Director, totaling O'Neill.

The same thing was conveyed by Joanna Reeve from Intrepid Travel. He said that 62 percent of his company's solo customers were carried out by women, with the majority aged 45 to 60 years.

The reason these women do solo traveling is because they want to spend time for themselves. Especially for several years of his life spent taking care of his family.

They said they had spent most of their lives on careers or families. Now is the time to spend time on yourself, "added Joanna.

In addition, solo traveling also allows one not to be tied to other people's schedules or desires. For favorite destinations, female solo traveling today according to Intrepid Travel is Morocco, Peru, to active travel such as trekking or cycling in Europe.