Solo Travel

The Single Gourmet Club

GLB1-60 Old Mill Road
Oakville, Ontario L6J 7V9 Canada
Tel: 416/929-7591
Web: singlegourmet.ca/  An international social, dining and travel club for singles, with offices in 21 cities in USA and Canada, and one in London. Offers three trips a year to all parts of the world. As you might imagine, food and gourmet meals are the focus of these trips.

Single Travelers Action Group

c/o Jean Jewell
STAG
Church Lane
Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire MK44 1HR, England
Tel: (011) 44-1234-782415
A nonprofit singles networking organization with over 2,500 members throughout the U.K. and 14 other countries. Membership is £10 (US$15) per year.

TravelChums

P.O. Box 231295
New York, NY 10023
Tel: 212/787-2621
Web: travelchums.com/
This free, online service, run by educational travel publisher Shaw Guides, connects solo nomads from around the world. Members create detailed profiles, which include such travel-oriented info as desired companion qualities and favorite past trips (there are currently 29,000 profiles online). Members can contact each other through the site's internal messaging system, or directly via e-mail.

Travelin' Singles

c/o John La Point
P.O. Box 2702
Laguna Hills, CA 92654
Tel: 800/748-6662
Web: travelinsingles.com/This singles' travel club has been organizing tours for solos in their 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s, since 1980. Members can subscribe free to an online newsletter detailing the prospective trips, or pay $15/year for a printed copy.

T.G.I.F. (Canada)

977 Wellington Drive
North Vancouver, BC BCV7 K1L1 Canada
Tel: 800/661-7151 or 604/988-5231
Web: tgifbc.com/
This singles club for travelers 20 and up has over 1,200 members. Events include "Get-away Weekends," ski-trips, river rafting, sailing, cruises and other longer trips.

Single travelers of all nations, travel! You have nothing to lose but your unwarranted fears. You have a world to win!