Booking.com’s most extensive LGBTQ+ travel research to date spotlights the steady progress, as well as the recent setbacks, for these communities when it comes to travel. Despite the travel industry’s growing recognition of the scope and variety of LGBTQ+ experiences, many travellers today still face enormous challenges. With a background of polarizing political decisions in the past 12 months, personal safety has never been more of a focus, with four fifths (78%) of Canadian LGBTQ+ travellers reporting that they must consider their safety and wellbeing as an LGBTQ+ person when picking a destination – up significantly from 68% last year. Read more
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News about LGBTQ+ travel, plus a Nova Scotia golf update and European train travel item. My news roundup for today. Canada Ranked Safest Country in World for LBGTQ+ Travelers Canada ranked at the top of the 2023 list as the most LGBTQ+ country in the world for the third year in the row. Journalists Lyric and Asher Fergusson run a travel site dedicated to LGBTQ+safety. At the beginning of March, they published a report called “The 203 Worst (& Safest) Countries for LGBTQ+ Travel in 2023.” CIC News says they reviewed every country’s individual laws and gathered data from Read more
Either the world is changing, or Gen-Z is getting older. A new study finds Gen-Z travellers are more interested in food or, gasp, sightseeing than they are in hitting the nightclubs. Maybe they’re becoming their parents. A new global report from StudentUniverse, a Flight Centre Travel Group company and the world’s largest student and youth travel marketplace, today’s Gen-Z travelers are more culturally aware, open to new experiences and willing to dig deeper into the places they visit. Compared to past generations, the biggest appeals now for young travelers are sightseeing (70%) and experiencing new culture (68%), followed by trying Read more
A new report on LGBTQ+ travellers shows they should be a key target group for Canadian tour operators and Canadian destinations. The study from MMGY Global found that half of LGBTQ+ travelers said that the safety of a destination is a concern when deciding where to go. That meshes perfectly with a study from just a couple days ago that said Montreal is the third safest city in the world. The MMGY report also found that 52% of LGBTQ+ respondents said state politics related to their LGBTQ+ identity greatly impact their decision to travel. Presumably, that also means that LGBTQ+ Read more
To celebrate the return of Pride around the globe, Airbnb is revealing the top 50 worldwide Pride celebrations this summer. Three Canadian cities made the list. Toronto finished seventh, Montreal was 25th and Vancouver 28th. This ranking is based on total nights booked over respective Pride weekends worldwide, looking at bookings made on Airbnb from January to May 2022. The list uncovers nights booked in each respective city over their Pride weekends this year, with bookings hitting a significant milestone: tens of thousands of nights have already been booked over the top 50 Pride weekends for this summer, bringing Pride weekends in Read more
