Rashmi Chadha
Built on the foundation of Women Friendly Travel, with Wovoyage, Rashmi’s vision is to build an accessible and safe platform for women’s wanderlust worldwide. With her entrepreneur prowess and business acumen, she carved the niche for herself in the travel industry.
An avid wanderlust, Rashmi Chadha is also a TEDx speaker and has won many accolades lately for the leadership role across the industry.
Rashmi’s woman-centric travel start-up, Wovoyage, creates women-friendly customised packages and assigns them expert women guides. Making it safe and fearless travel for women, at the same time, the organisation also empowers Indian women with employment.
Rashmi engages with industry leaders, peers, travellers as a speaker at many platforms to communicate and have a deeper engagement. A few places where she has been a speaker include TEDx, Harvard University, OTM, ITB India, Digital Travel Apac, etc.
Rashmi says, at work team members inspire each other, and that is how the team functions through innovative, fresh, and creative ideas. Industry-wise, being women’s travel aggregator platform, they have collaborated with many local women in tier II and III cities who run this business module. It is to support and encourage them and build a strong and safe community for everyone. They have trained women partnered with them, including group tour leaders and women cab services. This is empowering many women to come forward and contribute to the travel and tourism industry, create employment, and provide safe and smooth travel for women. Rashmi mentions that they have a lot of women content creators who are now joining them to take on this journey and encourage many other women.
“I believe having a clear vision for the future and adapting with time is the most I resonate with. I don’t believe in hierarchy; my focus has always been on creating an equal and safe platform.”
Rashmi believes that empathy is essential in every aspect of life, from business to personal life. Having a great team and believing in them with one’s vision, and trusting them with it, is the key. In the end, all of us are humans. So, a mixed bag of business practicality and empathy does wonders and benefits both.
Next Vacation: Rashmi is travelling to Japan to see cherry blossoms.