Doing their part to keep Portland, Oregon quirky and homo-friendly, the Jupiter Hotel, a locally owned boutique property, announced a new room package, Keep Portland Queer. The package includes an LGBT Travel Portland brochure, as well as complimentary resources like Out City and PQ Monthly magazines, as well as a tasty treat from local favorite Voodoo Doughnuts, a gift card toContinue reading “Suite Dreams: Oregon Hotel Strives to Keep Portland Queer”
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NY Times Travel Show: LGBT Panel, Saturday March 3
If you are anywhere near New York and love to travel, come to the NY Times Travel Show for the LGBT Travel Panel Saturday, March 3, 4pm-5pm ET moderated by yours truly and including a fine panel of travel experts: LoAnn Halden, IGLTA; Andre Rojer, Curacao Tourist Board; Mike Luongo, Freelance Journalist; David Ryan, RhinoContinue reading “NY Times Travel Show: LGBT Panel, Saturday March 3”
Tulum. Everybody’s Talking About It
Located at the tip of the Yucatan peninsula in the gay-friendly state of Quintana Roo, Tulum is best known for well-preserved ancient beachfront Mayan ruins (below). It’s less known for having an incredibly fun party called Caribbean Heat (that’s a photo from last year’s above), seven days of events, parties and culture (optional exploration ofContinue reading “Tulum. Everybody’s Talking About It”
Deal of the Week: 2 for 1 (or 40% off) Fab Out Adventures Tours
Our friends at Out Adventures send you a little love. You just have to show them a little love. Share a picture; like them on Facebook and follow them on Twitter and couples get to travel two for the price of one. Solo travelers get a whopping 40%. Choose among the following 2012 trips. ButContinue reading “Deal of the Week: 2 for 1 (or 40% off) Fab Out Adventures Tours”
Our Thoughts Shift to Provincetown’s Independence Day Parties
It’s never to early to daydream about Provincetown in the summer. Here we are barely a third of the way through February and our mental travels take us to the tip of Cape Cod for July 4. It definitely isn’t too early to start planning. That is after all an incredibly busy week. Some guesthousesContinue reading “Our Thoughts Shift to Provincetown’s Independence Day Parties”
Atten-SHUN! Military Personnel: Free at Telluride Gay Ski Week
The organizers of Telluride Gay Ski Week, which takes place from Saturday, February 25, 2012 through Saturday, March 3, 2012, is offering free VIP party passes for the week for active service members and a special military-themed “Do Ask Do Tell” dance party. In celebration of the defeat of the discriminatory ban on openly gay and lesbianContinue reading “Atten-SHUN! Military Personnel: Free at Telluride Gay Ski Week”
LGBT Travel Panel at the L.A. Times Travel Show
Yours truly is organizing an LGBT travel panel at the upcoming L.A. Times Travel Show on Saturday, January 28, 2012 from 2:15pm to 2:45pm in the Travel in Style Pavilion, naturally enough. If you are anywhere near the Los Angeles Convention Center in downtown L.A., please stop in. You can find more information about theContinue reading “LGBT Travel Panel at the L.A. Times Travel Show”
Key West: Ed Salvato on Toronto’s Proud FM
The fabulous folks at Proud FM Toronto with Mike Chalut invited me on to talk about Key West following Mike Chalut’s recent trip there where he frolicked and luxuriated at the Island House Key West for a long weekend. Click here to listen to the short (just over 4-minute) recording from Proud FM’s most recent “Travel Tuesday.”Continue reading “Key West: Ed Salvato on Toronto’s Proud FM”
“Zero Feet Away” from the Center of New York
This sexy billboard is raising all sorts of eyebrows. To announce its new mobile app, Manhunt bought time in this rotating electronic billboard ad featuring two hot, shirtless guys. And they plunked it in the middle of one of the busiest spots in New York amongst the tourist hordes. Like Grindr, Manhunt’s new mobile app,Continue reading ““Zero Feet Away” from the Center of New York”
The Gay & Lesbian Tourism Bible, 16th Edition
All LGBT marketing pros worth their salt keep a copy of Community Marketing, Inc.’s (CMI) Annual Gay & Lesbian Tourism Study at the ready for answers to many questions regarding the segment from its size to various behaviors to its most popular destinations. This year’s study, the 16th Annual Gay & Lesbian Tourism Study is chock full of great informationContinue reading “The Gay & Lesbian Tourism Bible, 16th Edition”
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