Empowered Women Travel for Organizations
Leadership retreats, ERG journeys, incentive travel and executive offsites — designed and operated by a woman-owned firm, and built to direct measurable spend to women-owned businesses at every destination.
Every program ends with a written impact report you can use in your own supplier-diversity and ESG reporting.
Start an Inquiry Capability StatementMost organizations buy offsite and incentive travel from a vendor that delivers exactly one thing: logistics. The program happens, the invoice clears, and nothing else changes.
Empowered Women Travel runs the logistics to the same standard — and routes the spend deliberately. Your group stays in women-owned lodging, eats at women-owned restaurants, works with women guides and drivers, and buys from women artisans. The result is a program that does two jobs at once: it develops and retains the women in your organization, and it puts a documented, reportable share of your travel budget into women-owned businesses.
That second outcome is the part a generic destination management company cannot give you. It is the reason our clients can defend the line item to finance, to their supplier-diversity team, and to their people.
An immersive, facilitated program abroad for the women in your leadership pipeline — or for your women's employee resource group. Cultural immersion paired with structured leadership content and time with women business owners who built something from nothing.
A reward trip your top performers actually talk about afterward — because it is not another resort. Distinctive destinations, real cultural access, and a story your winners can tell that reflects well on the company that sent them.
A small, high-stakes group that needs the meeting to go well and the logistics to be invisible. Private working space, controlled schedules, and a destination that gives the group something to think about besides the agenda.
You are already sending people to a conference or trade mission. We handle everything around the badge — and add the destination programming that turns a flight and a hotel block into an experience worth the travel budget.
Group sizes and durations above are the ranges we design to, not limits. Programs outside them are quoted case by case.
EWT is owned and led by its founder, Lorraine Barrett. Contracting with us places spend with a woman-owned business directly — not with a large intermediary that subcontracts a fraction of the work to one.
See Supplier Diversity & Procurement below for the vendor documentation your team will need.
Supporting women-owned business is not a line in our marketing — it is how the itinerary is built. Lodging, dining, guiding, transport and retail are sourced from women-owned operators at the destination wherever they exist. That is what makes the spend traceable, and what makes the impact report possible.
We operate on relationships we have built ourselves in Cuba, Ghana and Japan — casa and guesthouse owners, guides, drivers, cooks and artisans we work with repeatedly. In Cuba that network is paired with real regulatory competency: our programs are structured for the U.S. “Support for the Cuban People” authorization, and every traveler receives a documented itinerary meeting the five-year record-retention requirement.
The person who scopes your program is the person who runs it. Lorraine brings a 25+ year career in travel and entertainment, and is on the ground with the group. There is no handoff from a salesperson to an operations team you have never met.
For supplier diversity and procurement teams
If you carry a diverse-spend target and have to report the number, this is the section you need. EWT is set up to be onboarded as a vendor through a normal procurement process, and to give your team documentation that survives an audit.
| Legal entity | Empowered Women Travel LLC — Florida limited liability company, formed August 4, 2020. Florida Division of Corporations document number L20000233703. |
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| Good standing | A Certificate of Status from the Florida Division of Corporations can be provided for your vendor file on request. |
| Ownership | Woman-owned and woman-led. |
| EIN & W-9 | A completed W-9, including the EIN, is furnished directly to your procurement or AP team on request. |
| Payment terms | We can work to your standard AP terms and deposit schedule, agreed in the written contract. |
| Invoicing | Itemized invoices referencing your PO number, cost center or project code, issued to your AP address or portal. Deposit, progress and final invoices per the contracted schedule. |
| Vendor onboarding | We complete standard vendor registration packets, supplier portals, diversity self-certification questionnaires, ACH and banking forms, and W-9 submission. Tell us your portal and we will work through it. |
| NAICS codes | 561510 Travel Agencies · 561520 Tour Operators · 561920 Convention & Trade Show Organizers. |
Need this as a document? See the one-page capability statement — formatted to print on US Letter and built for procurement files.
The part no one else gives you
A destination management company hands you a final invoice. We hand you a final invoice and a written impact report — a document your organization can put directly into its own supplier-diversity and ESG reporting.
Here is what that report contains.
Reports are issued after the program closes, once final supplier invoices are settled. Figures are drawn from actual settled program spend — we report what was paid, not what was estimated. Scope and format are agreed in the contract so the report matches the categories your team already reports against.
Why this justifies the price. A generic operator can source a hotel block more cheaply. What it cannot do is tell you, by name, which women-owned businesses your budget reached, in a form your reporting team can use. If your organization has a diverse-spend target, that document is not a nice-to-have — it is the difference between spend that counts toward the target and spend that does not.
Thirty to forty-five minutes with Lorraine. What the program is for, who is traveling, when, the budget envelope, and what your organization needs to be able to report afterward. No cost and no obligation.
A documented program: destination and dates, day-by-day outline, the women-owned suppliers we intend to use, inclusions and exclusions, and a line-item budget with per-person and total costs. Written so you can circulate it internally for approval.
A written agreement covering scope, payment schedule, cancellation and force majeure terms, insurance and indemnification — negotiated with your legal and procurement teams. Vendor onboarding, W-9, COI and PO setup happen here. Deposit releases supplier bookings.
Pre-departure traveler communications and briefing, then founder-led delivery of the program itself, with a named point of contact reachable throughout for your internal stakeholders.
Final reconciled invoicing, the written impact report described above, and a debrief call on what worked, what to change, and whether to run it again.
Goes straight to Lorraine. We reply within one business day.
Most of these conversations go better as a conversation. Email Lorraine directly and say what you are trying to do — the founder scopes the program and delivers it.
Lorraine Barrett
Founder, Empowered Women Travel
lorraine@empoweredwomentravel.com
General office: info@empoweredwomentravel.com
Jacksonville, Florida · Monday–Sunday, 9AM–9PM ET
Need vendor documentation to open a file? The capability statement prints to a single page. For a W-9, COI, or completion of a supplier registration packet, email info@empoweredwomentravel.com with the forms and we will return them.
Organizational and group programs are contracted separately from our consumer bookings, under a written agreement with its own cancellation schedule and terms. See Organizational & Group Contracts.