Stroma Cole

Dr Stroma Cole is Professor of tourism and human rights at the University of Westminster.. Stroma is a leading authority on tourism and gender relations and is co-director of the charity Equality in Tourism. Stroma is the principal investigator of FUTOURWORK – an EU Horizon project working to improve tourism and hospitality workers’ well-being through social dialogue in our increasingly digital industry. She has over 70 publications, and serves on the boards of tourism’s top academic journals. In 2025 she was named one of the top 50 most influential global educators of Tourism and Hospitality. In 2026 She was named in TravelPulse’s list of the Most Influential Women in Travel.