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American Women Are Traveling Solo at Record Numbers in 2026. Here's What That Actually Means. *By the Go Solo Editors* --- Something shifted this year. It's hard to put a finger on exactly when it happened, but if you've been paying attention — to your feed, to your group chats, to the women around you quietly booking flights and not telling anyone until they've already gone — you've felt it too. Women are traveling alone. In numbers we've never seen before.

If you’ve been thinking about booking a trip lately, you may have had the same moment many travelers are having right now. You open your laptop, start searching flights, maybe even find a great price. Then you pause. You check the news. Suddenly the world feels a little less stable than it did five minutes earlier. War headlines dominate the news cycle. Political tensions seem to escalate overnight. Entire regions appear uncertain depending on which story you read that day. F

Solo travel isn't just trending—it's booming. And the travel industry is racing to keep up. The global solo travel market, valued at $482.34 billion in 2024, is projected to more than double to $1.07 trillion by 2030, according to Grand View Research. That represents a compound annual growth rate of 14.3%, making it one of the fastest-growing segments in the travel industry. For context, the U.S. solo travel market alone generated approximately $95 billion in 2024, with proje