Who Are Camino Women?
We are an active-adventure travel operator for energetic women who appreciate doing new things, seeing new cultures and making new friends. With Camino Women, you’ll experience intimate encounters, fantastic surprises, and have insider access that’s difficult to find anywhere else. Our trips will take you to the best spots, while avoiding the tourist traps. We’ll find you comfortable accommodation where possible on all of our trips and make sure you enjoy the best food and cultural experiences we can find. We are the same team behind the Patch Adventures travel brand.
Stevie
Operations
Stevie’s wanderlust for travel started very early. Raised in a small farming community (of non-travellers), she craved interaction with different cultures and people around the world. As soon as she finished college she was off! India became her first solo adventure.
It was an event that changed her life forever. She became addicted… to the colours, the sights, the scents, the sounds. It was here that Stevie set eyes on the Himalayas for the first time. Travel evoked in her a gratitude for the many connections she established with warm-hearted and welcoming ‘strangers’, and their show of generosity and kindness.
After that, travel became a necessary part of her life. Everything she did revolved around getting to that next destination. She worked in hospitality for years so that she could spend a few months in ski towns, on islands or hiking villages in whatever country called her name. During time off, she’d seek out ‘exotic’ adventures or spend several months being unplugged from the modern world.
Since college days, Stevie has hiked some mind-blowing trails in places like Colorado, Alaska, both the US and British Virgin Islands, the Peruvian Andes, trails of the Great Aussie Hike and the hinterland of Australia’s Sunshine Coast.
But of course it’s never enough! Her list only seems to grow longer each year! Stevie’s first Camino Women trip will be Peaks of the Balkans.
Lisa
Trip Designer
Lisa is our expert trip designer and has already come up with fantastic and engaging itineraries for Camino Women tours in Australia… and all over the world. Also the head trip designer behind our sister brand Patch Adventures, Lisa brings a wealth of experience from her time spent overseas.
Having lived in Myanmar for several years, Lisa has some quite in-depth travel industry experience and personal travel stories from throughout Asia. Working in philanthropic travel with wealthy project donors, and prior to that Australian Embassies, gave her the eagle-eye sharpness required to not miss a single, teeny, tiny detail.
We can’t wait to see what she cooks up next!
Rebeca Newton
Founder & Owner
Travel is in Rebeca’s blood — in fact, her very first job was with Avianca, the largest airline in Latin America. She didn’t look back, moving from that job to start TourismTiger, a web design company for tour operators with her husband, Matthew (who you may know as Mat!)
While running TourismTiger, Rebeca met operators from all over the world and saw the travel industry from a perspective that outsiders are simply not shown on a day-to-day basis. The light-bulb moment was inevitable and it came at the start of 2019. With so many relationships with incredible providers all over the world, “why not put that to good use and create the most fantastic experiences possible”?
Having always been attracted to the sense of community around tourism, Rebeca was in love with the idea of bringing like-minded women together to experience the trip of a lifetime. It still gets her imagination soaring and it’s what Camino Women is all about.
She’s also hand-picked a team of scouts — knowledgeable travel creators who are deeply connected and understand how to create a perfectly balanced trip — who hunt the globe for the best experiences.
