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IGLTA
As a response to our members’ desire to have more opportunities to reach consumers directly, we are rolling out a new series of consumer-focused programs and member benefits. Launched on 29 September, IGLTA now publishes a twice monthly consumer newsletter that provides member travel stories, events, tours, specials and news, which is sent to our consumer mailing list. Our list currently reaches 24,000 subscribers and we continue to grow that number through a series of consumer promotions and trip giveaways. Click here to subscribe to the travel newsletter.
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IGLTA
Please join us in welcoming the LGBTQ-friendly businesses that joined the association in September:
Stonewall Travel & Transport,
Loottis,
Barge Connection,
TEK n Travel,
Visit Savannah,
Hotel KOE Tokyo,
Boundless Possibilities Cruises and Tours,
Outhentico by Land of Emotion,
Luxury Slovenia DMC,
Q19: QCinema's 19th Annual LGBT International Film Festival,
Sagitravel Friendly,
Japan Transocean Air,
Jasper Travel.
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IGLTA
Many of you had the pleasure of working with David Martin Moreno, our IGLTA ambassador for Spain based in Madrid. He was a tireless advocate for LGBTQ visibility in his home country and beyond, receiving an IGLTA Networking Honor for his contributions to Fitur GAY at our 2016 Annual Global Convention in Cape Town. His recent death was a great blow to our LGBTQ tourism family and allies, and we will miss David's energy and enthusiasm every day as we continue to work to make the world more welcoming for all travelers. Click here for a Facebook album with some of our favorite memories of David at tourism industry events over the years.
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Sixth Tone
While gay-focused travel agencies have existed in China for at least a decade, the range of services is expanding, reflecting changing demands among the country's LGBT population. But such fragmentation also poses challenges for companies in the field, whose growth potential is curbed by persistent negative stereotypes and a continued aversion to coming out among many LGBT Chinese.
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RIVENDELL MEDIA is the sales staff for more than 200 LGBT newspapers, magazines & entertainment guides & when you call us you are dealing directly with the publication. Rivendell Media will help you plan & execute media campaigns not only by region, city or budget but also by ethnicity, m/f readership, age & other critical indicators.
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Travel + Leisure
A couple from Germany celebrated the first same-sex marriage since the nation voted to legalize marriage equality in June. Karl Kreile and Bodo Mende, a longtime couple who campaigned for LGBT rights throughout their lives, celebrated the first marriage at a town hall in Berlin, The Associated Press reported. The couple has been together for 38 years, and they celebrated with a reception and a rainbow cake before they head off to their honeymoon in Vienna.
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Passport Magazine
Writes Alistair Chang: "Gay Tokyo offers something unique and different from many other big cities. In Tokyo, the extremely ancient meets the extremely modern, and those juxtapositions play out in everyday life. Photographer Cassidy DuHon and I visited Tokyo earlier this year. During our week there, we met with LGBT rights activists, male geishas, and Japanese drag queens. We sought out the newest luxury hotels and spas, the most popular gay bars- and the freshest slices of sashimi."
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By Suzanne Mason
 U.S. tourism is officially in a slump. After months of reassurances that the travel industry was as strong as ever, new data shows that travel to the U.S. is in fact down. When President Donald Trump announced his travel ban earlier this year, many officials in the travel industry expressed concern that it would harm tourism. With Trump recently issuing a revised travel ban, the question now is whether tourism will recover or continue in its downward spiral.
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Washington Blade
A gay Panamanian lawyer who once lived in D.C. is leading efforts to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples in his country. Ivan Chanis Barahona is working on behalf of a gay couple legally married in the U.K. who is seeking formal recognition of their marriage in Panama. He is also among the lawyers who is litigating a second lawsuit challenging the provision of Panamanian law that bans same-sex couples from marrying.
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Hotel Business
According to new data from Trivago, New York City is the most popular and most expensive destination for international visitors this fall. Additionally, Florida is popular with locals, travelers to Kissimmee and Orlando are searching for the longest stays, and hotel guests from the U.K. account for the largest group of inbound travelers.
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Voice of America
The U.S. Supreme Court recently opened a new term that could alter America's landscape on immigration, travel restrictions, workers' rights, gay rights, data privacy, and congressional redistricting. "There is only one prediction that is entirely safe about the upcoming term, and that is it will be momentous," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg commented at a public forum.
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Reuters
Australia's Bureau of Statistics said 9.2 million people, or 57.5 percent of eligible voters, have cast their votes in a ballot on whether same-sex marriage should be legalized. Australians began voting in the non-binding poll, conducted by post, to inform the government on whether voters wanted Australia to become the 25th nation to permit same-sex marriage. The results of the poll will be declared on 15 November.
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The Associated Press via U.S. News & World Report
Advocates of same-sex marriage say they will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a Mississippi law that lets government workers and business people cite their own religious objections to refuse services to gay couples. The law has been on hold amid court challenges but is to take effect 6 October because a federal appeals court refused to keep blocking it.
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