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Mountain Travel

What Morocco’s First Female Mountain Guide Can Teach the Travel Industry

by Venus W. Jones August 20, 2024
by Venus W. Jones August 20, 2024 0 comment

About three years ago, Peak DMC, Intrepid Group’s vacation spot management agency, set itself a goal of doubling its range of lady guides.

“As an enterprise, we certainly found out that we had a hassle with phrases of gender equality in our excursion courses. We started to challenge ourselves three years ago, thinking, ” OK, are we honestly doing the proper issue?” Zina Bencheikh, regional widespread manager of Europe, Middle East, and North Africa at Peak DMC, informed attendees Tuesday at Skift Forum Europe.

Eventually, the corporation pulled itself up to 50-50 throughout Bencheikh’s areas. However, it proved to be a massive venture, mainly in Morocco, wherein few ladies operate within the sector.

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Bencheikh and Peak DMC worked hard to convince the Moroccan authorities to apprehend the importance of getting more female publications licensed, as it made top businesses feel.

Bencheikh estimates that more than sixty-five percent of vacationers coming to Morocco are ladies, and many want to go on girl-handiest excursions. In her frustration, she was tempted to send travelers to other components of the world.

“We get lots of requests for girl-simplest tours… I asked them [the Moroccan government] if we should ship them [tourists] to India because in India, in our DMC, we had 60 female tour guides, but they’re now not certified. Hence, it’s a distinctive way of running,” Bencheikh said.

“I become displaying their articles within the newspapers…approximately the success story of India, and I become like, don’t you want to repeat this in Morocco?”

Bencheikh planned to board some of the few lady excursion publications already operating in Morocco. They got in touch with Hafida Hdoubane, who now works at Peak DMC, and also talked at Skift Forum Europe.

Double has trekked Mount Toubkal, the very best peak in North Africa, generally led loads of tour corporations throughout the location, and now even runs girls’ day trip tours in Morocco, a complete-on adventurous excursion, just for ladies.

Double, who has labored inside the region since 1994, talked about the sexism she encountered schooling to be a guide and how her father “pushed us [her sisters] to be equal to guys.”

However, it has all been well worth it in the long run.

“I suppose I have excellent activity within the global. I find it irresistible,” she stated.

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For the last eight years, I’ve been a travel blogger. I’m now based in Berlin, Germany, and have visited over 80 countries. I’ve lived in over 15 of them, and I hope to continue to explore new cultures and lifestyles. I love traveling by train, bike, or scooter and exploring local markets and food.

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