The event titled “Accelerating Women’s Impact in the Post-Pandemic World” will be happening on the 8th of March, 2021 from 1000-1600 GMT +8.

The pandemic has made unprecedented disruptions and impacted women’s employment, livelihoods, productivity, performance, and well-being. Due to the impact of the “Shecession”, it is critical to support women through sharing of insights, resources, and opportunities to facilitate innovation, capacity building and collaboration. The main aim of this summit is to provide a space for women to leverage collective wisdom, experiences, and inspiration to innovative game changers in the industry.  

The Summit aspire to advance the process of empowering women by hosting impactful keynote speeches, inspiring fireside chats, breakout sessions, and insightful panel discussions regarding the progress of women particularly, in the tourism, hospitality, and events industry.

Some of the well-known women changemakers speaking include Anita Mendiratta, Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the UNWTO, Sarah Matthews, Group Head of Destination Marketing APAC, Tripadvisor, Sumaira Isaacs, CEO of World Tourism Forum and Datuk Paduka Marina Mahathir, Women activist and Founder, Zafigo.

The summit is designed to provide an opportunity for participants to connect with like-minded women and foster powerful collaborations. In this Summit, innovative gamechangers from different industries will share insights on the approaches and responses to address the COVID-19 challenges and increase women’s capabilities and capacities through their sharing. Women play a crucial role in all the industries in fulfilling essential jobs and in their roles as decision-makers. We are excited to offer these resources to women across the world in a creative new #WWW Summit 2021.  

For information on the Summit, World Women Tourism, IE University, She in Tourism or Asian Women Leadership Program, please contact us at prachi@worldwomentourism.com or info@sheintourism.com.