meet the Founder
I'm Temi, the founder of Girls Trip Tours. Growing up between Lagos, Nigeria and New York City, I shifted between many identities. This adaptability has helped me build community in many of the 30+ countries I've visited and the seven I've lived in. My shifting global-local perspective has made me acutely aware of the impact travel has on local communities, especially in Africa.
In some parts of the world, tourism is the lifeblood of an economy, and in others it can be dangerously exploitative. Since 2018, I've researched ways in which tourism could benefit local actors on my travels to Ghana, South Africa, and Kenya.
My solution is the Iranti: an alternative tourism economy driven by women that will change the way people travel Africa. Through Girls Trip Tours, we're validating a scalable gender-based approach to shifting power in the African tourism industry. By ensuring women and girls benefit from the $182 billion USD brought into Africa in 2019 through tourism, we will ensure communities are left better off with every trip we curate.
Emboldened by my grandmother's pioneering legacy as a diplomat and educator, I've seen first-hand the compounding effect of what's possible when women set and lead the agenda.
about us
Girls Trip Tours is a transformative travel experience for women, by women focused on empowerment. We host trips to various African destinations with the goal of empowering future leaders through mentoring, while taking in the sites and dining around town with high profile-business women and local leaders.
Our uniquely curated travel experiences allow women from all over the world to safely explore a bucket list African destination with confidence and purpose. Think of it as ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants’ with less soul-searching and more self-actualization.
the Vision
build legacy while living your best life
Girls Trip Tours enables solo-travel for women visiting Africa by building women-driven ecosystems to host travellers in bucket list destinations across the continent.
We've built an ecosystem of locally-owned hotels, women-led businesses, and women-focused organizations that enable us to curate custom purpose-filled itineraries that inspire transformation in women of all ages, at varying life stages visiting the African continent.
the Mission
TOURISM WITH SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
We're not just building a travel company. We're leveraging the travel use case to build an alternative economy driven by women that will change the way people travel Africa. And we're starting by serving the most influential demographic of travelers globally: women.
Read about our case study published at the United Nations (UNWTO).
