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Economic empowerment through travel, tourism and hospitality with Alessandra Alonso, Women in Travel CIC

March 23, 2023 • Heidi Fisher • Season 6 • Episode 3

Alessandra Alonso is the founder and managing director of Women in Travel CIC, a social enterprise which focuses on the economic empowerment of women through employability and entrepreneurship in travel, tourism and hospitality.

It provides all women, but especially marginalised, vulnerable and under-represented women with visibility, confidence, access to training, mentoring and allyship programmes.

Alessandra covers Women in Travel's history, how it continued to support people through the pandemic, and an exciting partnership with Google. And she describes how it has secured funding and revenue streams, her ambition to multiply its impact and how she will make this a reality.

Responding to the needs of the market but doing it in a way that is inclusive and enables the industry to embrace a more progressive way of operating is at the heart of Alessandra's work.

What next?

Visit the Women in Travel CIC website www.womenintravelcic.com and find Alessandra on LinkedIn https://uk.linkedin.com/in/alessandraalonso
More about Heidi's work at https://www.makeanimpactcic.co.uk

Hi, I’m Heidi Fisher, the host of the Make an Impact Podcast. I'm an impact measurement expert, passionate about helping you make a bigger impact in the world by maximising the impact your services have.

I can help you to measure, manage and communicate the impact you have better to funders, investors, commissioners and other stakeholders, and to systemise your data collection and analysis so that it frees up time and doesn’t become an additional burden.

I love helping you to measure social and economic impacts, including Social Return on Investment or value for money assessments, as part of understanding the change you make to peoples’ lives.

You can get in touch via LinkedIn or the website makeanimpactcic.co.uk if you’d like to find out more about working with me.