Founder of Travel Noire On the Growing Community of Black Travelers


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People of color are 38% more likely to make a purchase if advertisements are reflective of them, so that should be a wake-up call to travel companies worldwide.
Zim Ugochukwu, founder of Travel Noire, spoke yesterday at the Skift Global Forum. When she was a young girl in grade school, Ugochukwu and her mother traveled cross country on a road trip to Rochester, MN to escape an abusive home life. She grew up in the Midwest always feeling different because of her Nigerian-American descent, but over the years she say