India, Nov. 7 -- Have you ever seen a woman guide in India? Many would answer, 'Not really.' The Mithila Parker-starrer Chopsticks is the only recent example where we see a woman assisting a group of Chinese tourists across places in the city. However, just as there is a rise in women travellers in the country, travel experts say that women travel aggregators and hospitality sector players have grown too. And not just at the management level or desk jobs, but out on the field too.

Shalini Goyal Bhalla, founder of WomenOfIndia, looks at it in a different light by bringing rural and regional women into the picture. "Why not encourage them too?" She tells us that even the WOI was conceptualised around the same idea. "The idea was to bring w...