At Maiden Voyage, we live and breathe the journeys encountered by a rich and diverse community of business travellers.
Our range of courses fully respond to the necessity to support your employees whilst focusing on their individual characteristics and needs. Our interactive courses and workshops are developed using rich real-life case studies in a caring and psychologically safe space.
Our group courses and workshops can be delivered remotely or in person.
For individuals we can provide 1:1 tailored briefings.
Our most popular courses:
Inclusive Traveller Safety Training
- This comprehensive course addresses and provides solutions for the challenges faced by different groups of business travellers such as women, men, LGBTQ+, disabled and neurodiverse employees and those from different racial and cultural backgrounds. Course Outline
Female Traveller Safety Awareness Training
- This course addresses the specific risks facing female business travellers, with a special focus on sexual harassment, sexual, assault, self-defence and female wellness & pregnancy. Course Outline
- This course is also available in a 1:1 briefing format.
LGBTQ+ Traveller Safety Training
- With homosexuality illegal in over 70+ countries, some of which carry the death penalty, it’s important that your LGBTQ+ community is fully supported to travel safely. This course addresses the challenges, risks and practical mitigations to support your business travellers and incudes a comprehensive section for the Trans community. Course Outline
- This course is also available in a 1:1 briefing format.
Travel Safety in the UAE/GCC Training
- This course provides an in-depth overview of the business travel landscape for those travelling to the Gulf Cooperation Council. If you are looking to open up a business entity or send employees to the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain this course will prepare your employees to travel safely whilst keeping all aspects of diversity and inclusivity in mind. This course is delivered in conjunction with Bolst Global experts in doing business in the GCC. Course Outline
- This course is also available in a 1:1 briefing format.
Road Warrior Travel Safety Training
- Specially designed for employees who travel extensively on domestic travel, this course explores the risks and practical mitigations in the employees’ ‘home country’. Modules can be selected as needed but typically include hotel & accommodations safety, domestic travel, regional and local risks, taxi, ridesharing and hire car safety. These courses include some personal safety advice including what to do if weapons are involved as well as how to respond to major incidents such as an ‘active shooter’ Course Outline
- This course is also available in a 1:1 briefing format.
Creating an Inclusive Travel Safety Programme
- This course is designed for those looking to develop an inclusive travel management and safety programme to support their diverse business travellers. The course uses rich case studies to highlight the different aspects and mitigations for various minority groups including: women, LGBTQ+, inexperienced, disabled, neurodiverse travellers as well as addressing aspects of race, ethnicity and culture.
- + This course comes with an optional 2-day workshop and consultancy package to help you to design and build out your inclusive travel safety programme from the ground up. Course outline
Creating Inclusive Events Training
- This course will help you to prepare, market and run truly inclusive events and to keep your team and delegates safe at all times. Choose between our corporate & business events course or our leisure & entertainment events course, depending on the nature of your events. Course Outline
Inclusive Guest Safety Excellence Training (For Hotels and Serviced Accommodation providers)
- Developed for the hotel and accommodations sectors, this course is centered around powerful feedback and case studies of regular business traveller from diverse backgrounds. Packed with insights and advice the courses will help you to take your guest experience to the next level, ensuring it is inclusive, welcoming and safe for all. On completion, your organisation will be set to increase guest and customer satisfaction, positive reviews and ultimately your bottom line. Course Outline
- These courses can be supplemented by a dedicated mystery shop or guest survey for further guest intelligence.
Inclusive Travel Management Training (For Travel Management Companies)
- This course assists Travel Management Companies to deliver a truly inclusive business travel experience. We explore the challenges faced by diverse business travellers including women, LGBTQ+ and disabled travellers through powerful case studies shared by experienced business travellers.
- These courses can be supplemented by our dedicated business traveller and travel manager surveys, helping you to gather further insights into your performance and potential areas of improvement. Course Outline
- Once completed these courses can form part of our Certified Inclusive TMC programme,
Personal Safety and Active Bystander Training
- This course empowers your employees with practical tips and strategies to keep themselves safe as well as lots of techniques they can put in place to become an active (and safe) bystander to aid other people.
- This course can be deployed to support specific demographics and related crimes such as anti-Asian hate crime or violence against women and girls and incudes some basic self-defence techniques. Course Outline
Self-defence Training
- It is a fact that those who have undergone some form of self-defence or martial arts training have an air of confidence about them that makes them less likely to become a victim of harassment or assault.
- This course covers not only some self-defence and easy to use breakaway techniques but also covers some of the psychology, physiology and legal aspects of keeping ourselves safe in the event of a physical assault.
- Our self-defence trainers are all qualified and insured to delivery a practical training session with an emphasis on employee health and safety. Delegates will leave feeling empowered and confident to use the techniques they have learned. Course Outline
Bespoke Courses
- Let us tailor bespoke modules or 1:1 briefings for your organisation. You can choose to mix and match any of the material from our existing courses and we can add-in any company specific information or resources to bring it all together for your unique audience. These courses can be company and co-branded and designed to fit to your schedule from 1-hour to 2-days, delivered virtually, in-person or hybrid.
All of our trainers have their own specialisms so whether you are looking for support with specific regions, risk ratings, fragile environments or kidnap avoidance, we will ensure that your organisation is matched with the right trainer. Our trainers are available globally and can deliver our travel safety courses in English, French, German, and Spanish.
Our travel safety training courses can be delivered in partnership with your travel and safety teams to reinforce specific company messages and processes, ensuring employee safety and compliance to your travel programme.
Peace of Mind – We’re ISO31030 Ready
The ISO 31010 guidelines in Travel Risk Management emphasize the need for traveler safety training that focuses on the personal profiles and characteristics of employees. Maiden Voyage is a GBTA Travel Risk Management Supplier capability participant, assessed against the IS0 31030 guidelines.
Inclusive Traveller Safety Starter Pack
Not quite ready to invest in training your employees yet but you’re looking to get started with a policy review and perhaps guidance for your and your travellers? Then we recommend our new Inclusive Traveller Safety Starter Pack.
- Thoroughly research and understand your destination
- Prepare and pack for a safe trip
- Reduce your risk of abduction, kidnap and sexual assault
- Reduce the risk of homophobic attention
- Keep safe when traveling on the ground or in the air
- Identify a safe hotel and remain safe during your stay
- Reduce the risk of medical or pregnancy related problems
- Stay safe during business and leisure activities
- Identify potential predators and how to avoid a situation escalation
- Apply some simple verbal and physical self-defence techniques
- Reduce the risk of online threats
- Keep your valuables and company information safe
If you are curious about how our inclusive travel and safety courses could fit into your organisation let’s talk!
- Work with internal communications and diversity groups to promote your workshop
- Incorporate company specific advice about travel policies and the travel safety tools your company uses
- Work closely with us to tailor the material to your traveller’s destinations, level of experience and risk appetites
- Create a safe space and appropriate after care in case of personal disclosures
Our mission is to help you to safeguard your business travellers, what makes us different is our expertise in diverse traveller safety.
Business travel safety eLearning at your fingertips, wherever and whenever you need it. Our interactive and engaging travel security awareness eLearning modules bring you the most current learning on travel safety.
These online travel safety courses are built around the key principals of diversity, equity and inclusivity. Whether you are looking to support your women, LGBTQ+, disabled travellers or those travelling with and to a variety of different ethnic contexts our sensitive and practical travel safety advice will keep your employees safe as they travel.
Modules can be completed at a time, place and pace to suit your employees, making them the ultimate, flexible resource when they need it.
Our travel safety eLearning modules can be delivered in a variety of formats including SCORM and MP4 or can be delivered through our Learning Management System complete with a comprehensive analysis and reporting suite, enabling you to track your learners’ engagement and progress.
For in-person and bespoke training, including remote delivery via video conference, please find out more on our courses page.
Looking for assistance in making your travel programme and policies more inclusive? We recommend our Inclusive Traveller Safety Stater Pack.
The Inclusive Travel Safety Series is packed with practical travel safety tips and practices to keep your diverse business travel community safe and well as they travel. Each module explores the specific risks facing your business traveller in relation to gender, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity as well as physical and hidden disabilities at each stage of their journey.
Watch our preview video to find out more.
Each travel safety eLearning course module can be taken individually or as a bundled suite of courses..
- Short 10-minute modules to capture your learners attention
- Packed with practical tips and advice
- Built for a diverse audience of experienced and inexperienced business travellers
Let us build your custom training modules to your exact requirements. We can offer a range of rich media content ranging from animation to full production documentaries with a perfect blend of our travel and personal safety expertise combined with your in-house policies, processes and resources.
Our mission is to help you to safeguard your business travellers. What makes us different is our expertise in diverse traveller safety.
Certified female-friendly hotels for a safe business trip, that you and your travellers can trust to provide the right balance of guest safety, comfort and wellbeing.
Our trusted travel management partners who can help you to better safeguard your female and LGBTQ travellers for a safe business trip.
Brought to you by our global ambassadors, these travel safety resources provide everything you need to know from around the world.
Our calendar of upcoming events, webinars, conferences and speaking engagements.
Through our friendly supportive community, we share travel hacks (and woes), and have impassioned debates on everything from airline dress codes to hotel room yoga moves, as well as physically getting together to explore a new city together.
