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She Is Tourism. And She’s Coloring Through It.

Tourism has no chill. But maybe you can. Today I’m dropping the preview of something I’ve been quietly working on. It’s part emotional survival, part art therapy, part middle finger to burnout culture.

Jul 2025 1 min read Jenn Barbee

Tourism has no chill. But maybe you can.

Today I’m dropping the preview of something I’ve been quietly working on. It’s part emotional survival, part art therapy, part middle finger to burnout culture.

Introducing the She Is Tourism™ Coloring Journal.

Yeah. A coloring book. For the women who hold the whole damn industry together. The ones who fix the font on the banner, reply to the comment thread, and clean up everyone else’s mess — all while smiling in the group photo.

This isn’t about being artistic. It’s about staying human.

Inside you’ll find:

  • Prompts that don’t sugarcoat

  • Worksheets like “Boundaries, Baby” and your real tourism resume

  • Line art of actual badass women in tourism, not Pinterest-perfect strangers

  • And a closing letter I wrote for the ones who are about to lose it in the parking lot

This is step one in a bigger plan. I'm building a mental health fund for tourism and hospitality workers. Because we’re losing too many good people to stress, silence, and systems that treat them like they’re replaceable.

This journal is a love letter to the ones who stay. Who carry more than most people know. Who are tired but still show up.

Someone is driving four hours just to hear me speak this week. You don’t even know what that meant to me. So I made this for you. And for everyone else who's been holding it together with iced coffee and fumes.

Flip through the preview here. Full download drops July 10.

Print it. Rage-color it. Leave it in your work tote as a quiet protest.

Because she built the itinerary, ran the numbers, smiled in the group photo, and still had glitter in her car?

She is the strategy. She is the clean-up crew. She is tourism.

And now? She colors.

Originally published on LinkedIn, Jul 2025. This is its home now.

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