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🏖 SEPAD launches 'Programa de viajes 55 y más' for the second consecutive year, offering Extremadura residents aged 55+ access to 152 destinations, including 98 international and 54 Spanish locations, cruises, and islands. Agencies like Costas y Paisajes – Coria Tours, Viajes El Corte Inglés, and others are accredited. The program, aiming for active aging, had 920 participants last year. Benefits include reduced rates, 3-star hotels minimum, full board with excursions, and direct flights from Badajoz Airport for certain destinations.

👩 On International Women's Day 2025, themed "For all women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment," Belvera Partners finds only 15.6% of travel tech executives are women despite making up 54% of tourism workforce, according to UN Tourism data. Low-skilled, low-paid, often informal jobs are common among women in the industry, with fewer professional advancement opportunities. Entrepreneurial women receive only 2% of total investments, a small portion into women-led tourist companies. Stay22, a Montreal-based affiliate marketing platform, has a 100% male board of directors but women hold 55% of department director roles. Stay22 promotes gender equality with unlimited sick and personal days, flexible hybrid work, seasonal office closures, and support for organizations advancing female tech talent. Civitatis, a B2B2C travel service platform, values talent equally and HolidayPirates Group, with a 62% female workforce and gender-balanced board, advocates for representation in decision-making for a stronger connection to customers. Flexibility in jobs across departments has sustained female leadership within HolidayPirates. Bedsopia's Commercial Director highlights that women, often the family travel decision-makers, need representation in company leadership to understand market segments.