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Australia's LGBTIQ+ tourism industry on show in NYC

Australia will be promoted as a travel destination for LGBTIQ+ tourists when Gay & Lesbian Tourism Australia (GALTA) head to New York this week to promote the best the country has on offer.

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Some 700 delegates from some 50 countries have registered to attend the International Gay & Lesbian Tourism Assn (IGLTA) 36Th Annual Global Convention.

To be held at the New York Hotel Midtown, this is regarded as the world’s premier educational and networking event for LGBT+ tourism professionals.

One item on the agenda that will be of particular interest to the Australian Tourism industry will be the information session on the emerging Asian middle-class LGBT+ community to be presented by Kenneth Kwok, founder or Global Citizen Capital.

According to Kwok “Asia, a beautiful community of more than 20 countries and home to 3.5 billion people are on the brink of a broad-based revolution for the LGBT+ community” This will directly relate to their travel plans.

GALTA will be represented by one of its Directors,  Rod Stringer a long time attendee at these events  Stringer said he was looking forward to making sure Australia was well represented.

” We look forward to flying the flag for Australia and keeping us in the minds and travel plans of the millions of the  LGBT+  travellers worldwide”.

Source: Media Release


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