{"id":12991,"date":"2023-12-12T11:41:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T01:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/?p=12991"},"modified":"2023-12-12T11:43:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T01:43:45","slug":"mtas-karen-merricks-makes-the-2023-women-in-travel-power-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/mtas-karen-merricks-makes-the-2023-women-in-travel-power-list\/","title":{"rendered":"MTA&#8217;s Karen Merricks makes the 2023 Women in Travel Power List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2023 Women in Travel Power List is put together by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelweekly.com.au\/article\/the-2023-women-in-travel-power-list-has-arrived\/\">Travel Weekly<\/a> and considers four main criteria including:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Theme-ForegroundColor-15\">1. Looking at the size and health of the travel organisation of which the woman is a part of;<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Theme-ForegroundColor-15\">2. The importance of the work that they do within the travel industry;<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Theme-ForegroundColor-15\">3. How their work has impacted and influenced the general workings\/economics of the travel industry;<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Theme-ForegroundColor-15\">4. The arc of the woman\u2019s career \u2013 how they have gotten to where they are today. They also look at <span>look at how each woman is using her power to help inclusivity and equality.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MTA&#8217;s Co-Founder and Managing Director, Karen Merricks, has secured a spot in the TOP 20 POWER LIST 2023 at the Women in Travel Awards by Travel Weekly! \ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>Being a pioneer in the home-based model for travel agents, Karen envisioned what has become a thriving trend in the industry today. Back in 2000, she laid the foundation for MTA &#8211; Mobile Travel Agents as a family business, and it has since grown to encompass over 450 mobile travel agents nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Well done to Karen Merricks and MTA for making waves in the travel industry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2023 Women in Travel Power List is put together by Travel Weekly and considers four main criteria including: 1. Looking at the size and health of the travel organisation of which the woman is a part of; 2. The importance of the work that they do within the travel industry; 3. How their work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,158,57,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-holidays","category-home-page-news","category-uncategorized"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-01-17 23:56:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12991"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12998,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12991\/revisions\/12998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}