Skift Publicizes the 2026 Women Leading Travel Forum in New Orleans

Last June I flew to Atlanta to attend the Women Leading Travel and Hospitality Summit. I needed to see the occasion firsthand earlier than we determined whether or not to amass the corporate behind it.

I used to be considered one of perhaps two males within the room of about 400. What I walked into was in contrast to any journey convention I’d been to in 13 years of working Skift. This wasn’t a panel-heavy, badge-scanning business occasion, it was a room stuffed with senior ladies executives in journey having the sort of conversations that don’t occur wherever else on this business. Career challenges, management at scale, the true stuff, not sanitized keynote materials. The belief in that room was palpable.

I left Atlanta figuring out we had to do that. Not as a nice-to-have, a once-in-a-lifetime acquisition for Skift.

Now we’re bringing it to life below the Skift umbrella for the primary time. The 2026 Women Leading Travel Forum is occurring June 8-10 at The Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans. Same mission, identical intimacy, identical caliber of room, now with the complete weight of Skift’s editorial attain, information and government community behind it.

If you’re a lady government shaping technique, working a P&L, constructing manufacturers, or driving progress in journey and hospitality, that is the room you need to be in. Seats are restricted by design.

We have huge ambitions for what Women Leading Travel turns into inside Skift. New Orleans is the place it begins.