Black Travel Alliance in the News
ℹ️ The Travel Renaissance: Here’s How Black Travelers Are Changing the Industry (BET) – July 16, 2025
ℹ️ Inside the Black Travel Expo: How Event is Changing the Industry (MSN) – July 1, 2025
ℹ️ Black Travel Expo 2025 In Atlanta: Celebrating Diversity, Empowering Black Travelers, And Shaping The Future Of Global Travel (Travel And Tour World) – July 1, 2025
ℹ️ Inside the Black Travel Expo: How This Event is Changing the Industry (TravelPulse) – July 1, 2025
ℹ️ 10 ways travel insiders deal with annoying flight delays (NPR) – June 17, 2025
ℹ️ US Black Travelers Now Represent A $145B Market (Black Enterprise) – May 22, 2025
ℹ️ Meet Tomiko Harvey (Bold Journey Magazine) – April 16, 2025
ℹ️ U.S. Black Travelers Boost 2025 Travel Spend (FTN news) – March 25, 2025
ℹ️ New Research Shows US Black Travelers Now Spend $145 Billion (Travel Noire) – March 13, 2025
ℹ️ How a Seattle couple created a modern-day “Green Book” for Black travelers in the Pacific Northwest (OregonLive.com) – March 6, 2025
ℹ️ New study sheds light on Black U.S. travel (Travel Weekly) – March 4, 2025
ℹ️ New MMGY Travel Intelligence Report Reveals Key Trends Among US Black Travelers for 2025 as Safety, Cultural Experiences, and Increased Spending Shape Travel Decisions (Travel And Tour World) – March 2, 2025
ℹ️ Study: Black travelers seek safety, inclusivity (Asian Hospitality) – March 1, 2025
ℹ️ Research: U.S. Black travel market a $145B audience (hotelbusiness.com) – February 28, 2025
ℹ️ Study Reveals Travel Trends of U.S. Black Travelers (Recommend Magazine) – February 26, 2025
ℹ️ Shift in Travel Preferences: U.S. Black Travel Market Booms to $145 Billion, New Research Reveals (Hotel News Resource) – February 26, 2025
ℹ️ U.S. Black Travelers Are Now a $145 Billion Market (TravelAge West) – February 26, 2025
ℹ️ Black Travelers Spend $145 Billion Annually – It’s Time The Industry Paid Attention (Essence) – February 25, 2025
ℹ️ Black American Travelers Spending Upwards of $145 Billion (TravelPulse) – February 25, 2025
ℹ️ “Traveling While Black” is full-time job for this Seattle couple (The Seattle Times) – December 17, 2024
ℹ️ Black Travel Summit 2024 Taking Place Oct. 10-13, Featuring New Data on Black Travelers (TravelAge West) – October 3, 2024
ℹ️ Black Travel Summit 2024: Unveiling Highly Anticipated Data on Black Travelers and Announcing Bold International Expansion for 2025 (Yahoo Finance) – October 2, 2024
ℹ️ Influencer Paige Banks Empowers Black Travelers (EBONY Magazine) – August 2, 2024
ℹ️ National Geographic (dgepress.com) – July 2, 2024
ℹ️ A Guide to Black Travel Organizations and Events (TravelAge West) – April 29, 2024
ℹ️ DEI backlash: Travel’s diversity initiatives meet resistance (Travel Weekly) – March 4, 2024
ℹ️ Black Travel Advisors You Should Know (Travel Noire) – February 21, 2024
ℹ️ Here”s What It Was Like To Travel While Black During Jim Crow (Travel Noire) – January 17, 2024
ℹ️ What to Know About the First National Black Travel Day (TravelAge West) – October 13, 2023
ℹ️ Black Travel Summit Launches National Black Travel Day (Travel Agent Central) – September 26, 2023
ℹ️ The ABC Travel Greenbook app aims to connect Black people, businesses around the world (Miami Herald) – June 29, 2023
ℹ️ New ‘ABC Travel Greenbook’ App Highlights Black Experiences And Businesses Around the World (Travel Noire) – June 16, 2023
ℹ️ Travel influencer views Jacksonville’s Northside as an international travel destination (firstcoastnews.com) – June 11, 2023
ℹ️ Travel groups say NAACP’s Florida advisory misses the mark (Travel Weekly) – May 23, 2023
ℹ️ A Guide to Fun, Impactful and Lucrative Black Travel Groups (TravelAge West) – February 13, 2023
ℹ️ I decided in that moment that I was going to be the change I wanted to see in the industry’, Martinique Lewis on rewriting the narrative of Black travel (CN Traveller) – October 20, 2022
ℹ️ Flourishing through traveling while Black: Unfiltered voices of Black travelers (ScienceDirect.com) – September 23, 2022
ℹ️ Reflecting on Two Years of Leadership at the Black Travel Alliance: Advocating for Diversity and Inclusion in the Travel Industry (Caribbean & Co.) – July 3, 2022
ℹ️ Martinique Lewis on the results of her latest Diversity in Travel Scorecard (Travel Weekly) – June 12, 2022
ℹ️ A Newbie”s Take on Prepping for Your First Burn: A Chat with Martinique Lewis (Burning Man Journal) – April 22, 2022
ℹ️ Hurtigruten Creates Black Traveler Advisory Board to Improve Inclusivity in Expedition Cruising (Travel Agent Central) – March 3, 2022
ℹ️ Black travelers on the road to discovery (Travel Weekly) – February 28, 2022
ℹ️ Hurtigruten launches Black Traveler Advisory Board (Travel Weekly) – February 23, 2022
ℹ️ Tripadvisor partners with Black Travel Alliance, Tourism Reset on new campaign (PhocusWire) – February 3, 2022
ℹ️ New digital tools are helping travelers avoid discrimination (National Geographic) – January 31, 2022
ℹ️ Traveler Story: ‘The Army Helped Me Appreciate What The World Has To Offer’ (Travel Noire) – January 14, 2022
ℹ️ How the Travel Industry Is (Finally) Learning to Cater to Black Travelers (Fodors Travel Guide) – January 11, 2022
ℹ️ The Travel Industry”s Reckoning With Race and Inclusion (Published 2021) (The New York Times) – July 27, 2021
ℹ️ Black Travel Alliance Founder Martinique Lewis | Traveler to Traveler (Condé Nast Traveler) – July 6, 2021
ℹ️ Green Book’ inspires new generation of Black travel guides, podcasts (USA Today) – February 18, 2021
ℹ️ Stats: U.S. Black Travelers Most Influenced by Safety, Representation (Travel Agent Central) – January 14, 2021
ℹ️ Representation and Safety Are Key Factors in U.S. Black Travelers’ Decisions (TravelAge West) – January 14, 2021
ℹ️ What factors most influence Black travelers’ vacation choices? (Travel Weekly) – January 14, 2021
ℹ️ Stats: Black U.S. Leisure Travelers Spent $109.4 Billion in 2019 (Travel Agent Central) – November 19, 2020
ℹ️ Black U.S. Leisure Travelers Spent More Than $100 Billion on Travel in 2019 (TravelAge West) – November 19, 2020
ℹ️ The ‘ABC Travel Green Book’ aims to redefine Black tourism in a modern way (CNN) – October 3, 2020
ℹ️ MMGY to Research Underrepresented Travel Communities (Luxury Travel Advisor) – September 10, 2020
ℹ️ The Hard Realities That Black Travel Advisors Face ‚Äî and How to Be a Better Ally (TravelAge West) – June 30, 2020
ℹ️ Posting a Black Square, but Not Black Faces (Published 2020) (The New York Times) – June 21, 2020
ℹ️ Black Travel Alliance calls on travel firms for more than just words of support (Travel Weekly) – June 17, 2020
ℹ️ The New Black Travel Alliance Wants to Dismantle Racism in Travel (Condé Nast Traveler) – June 16, 2020