lgbt leisure travelers
The Gay Travel Paradox
Andrew Cohan | July 10, 2017
By Andrew Cohan A year or two after I graduated from college, I took a short vacation and went to Provincetown, Massachusetts, which I had heard was a gay destination (I was a late bloomer). On the first day there, I was riding my bicycle down Commercial Street when a guy on the sidewalk whistled at me and yelled out "Sexy legs!" At that moment, two things happened: First, I almost tumbled head over wheels into the car driving ahead of me; and, second, I knew the freedom and pleasure every straight high school kid who ever sat on a park bench in the afternoon sun kissing the boy or girl they were going steady with had felt. That feeling...
LGBT Leisure Travelers Identified as High Value Tourism Opportunity
DKSA's TRAVEL PERFORMANCE/MonitorSM | July 8, 2015
McLean, VA, July 9, 2015 - LGBT travelers not only take more leisure trips, but they spend more money than their non-LGBT counterparts, according to a national study by D.K. Shifflet and Associates. Despite smaller travel party sizes and comparable incomes, the study found that LGBT leisure travelers spend about 15% more per person per day than non-LGBT travelers. Furthermore, almost half of LGBT leisure travelers stay in luxury accommodations compared to one-third of non-LGBT travelers. "The fact that this group is more frequent, higher spending travelers while not having larger incomes is an indication of the priority this group puts ...
