maeve hartney, welcome to talking business. it's great to have you on the show.o be here. now, why are you choosing to focus on the, shall we say, more mature solo female travellers? road scholar, the organisation i work for, focuses only on mature travellers in general, both male and female. but what we've seen is a complete rise in numbers of the amount of single women travelling alone. about 60% of our travellers are always women and have been traditionally, but we're finding, of that 60%, at least 85% are women who are travelling alone — not with friends, not with family, they're just taking off and enjoying the experience and the adventure by themselves. and how have you noticed that? and what type of numbers are we talking about? so, last fiscal year, we had over 90,000 people travel on our in—person programmes and about 40,000 attend one of our online programmes. of that 90,000, about 70% of our travellers annually tend to be women, um, of which we have about 63,000 enrolled for this year so far. 85% of our solo travellers are always women, and 60% of thos