Do you know that despite being the minority of the world population, LGBT tourism accounts for around 10% of the total travel market (Global Report on LGBT Tourism, 2012). In addition, the annual spending will exceed US$200 billion for the first time in 2014 (Gay travel an “unstoppable revolution”, n.d.). With that figure in mind, it will be generating more revenue as compared to ‘non-gay’ travellers, contributing to the countries’ economy growth, is being defined as an unstoppable revolution.
Tourism, growing at a hastened pace since the end of World War II, was identified as a potential high economic growth sector, being regarded as the world’s utmost priority industry contributing 9% to the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) recording 935 million international arrivals by the World Tourism Organization (WTO) and creating 235 million jobs worldwide (Hattingh, Spencer, & Venske, 2011). Pink tourism being a subset of tourism; possesses the increasing economic benefits and is regarded as a form of tourism reaching out to gay people who are open about their sexual orientation, wish to travel and participate in the gay life of certain destinations (Lawrence, n.d.). This paper focuses on the research of pink tourism and the economic benefits it brings to countries who are open to pink tourism.
According to Lawrence (n.d.) adult LGBT community has a potential spending power of over $600 billion per year. As a result, gay people are perceived as a ‘dream market’, with the mind of the general public being more open and growing in the acceptance of gay lifestyles, this market will bound to become more desired (Hughes, Monterrubio, & Miller, 2010). Therefore, more tourists’ agents are showing interest due to its obvious economic benefits,...
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...ho opened up to LGBT ultimately seek for (Hughes et al., 2010), therefore countries should educate their people to have an open mind when dealing with LGBT travellers to have a mutual respect to reach a mutual understanding between both parties as it creates a brand loyalty to the business as well. In addition to such a growing market, more revenue were generated from LGBT spending, with this in mind, countries should never discriminate on pink tourism.
Having relatively little published research on gay people due to the open-mindedness of general public, not everyone in the LGBT community are willing to disclose their sexual orientation, as such market surveys available often have little respondents. In addition LGBT people do not like others to judge them in which they will feel offended and be uncomfortable. All these amounts up to the limitation in our research.
The Impact of Tourism on Betws-y-Coed Having compiled my knowledge and research into this piece of coursework, I hope to have addressed the following questions regarding Betws-y-Coed: How has tourism impacted on the economy? What visitor management is currently in place? What are the drawbacks to tourism? In my work, I hope to discover what exactly are the positive and negative aspects of tourism in the honeypot Betws-y-Coed by relating to Snowdonia National Park. It is important to contemplate the features the region has to offer, and why they are so appealing.
For years homosexuality in the United States of America has been looked down upon by citizens, religions, and even politicians. The homosexual culture, or the LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender), has been demoralized and stuck out and lashed against by the Heterosexual community time and time again. To better understand the LGBT community we must first grasp the concept of Sexual Orientation.
Currently, only 13 countries offer rights for members of the LGBT community. Within those countries, few offer equal rights such as health care, marriage rights, and adoption to LGBT members. Many people around the globe would agree that these rights, along with all other rights granted to heterosexuals, should not be granted to these members of the LGBT community. One prevalent notion is that being gay, or being included in the LGBT community, is unnatural. This notion is simply incorrect; everyone, no matter their gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation does, in fact, deserve the same liberties as their heterosexual counterparts. Being a member of the LGBT community has no negative effect on the lives of others unless those people view heterosexuality in a negative light, allowing it to bedevil them, and ultimately change the way they live their life. Being gay is completely natural. Though some would argue that homosexuality is unnatural, others would disagree, being that research has been conducted. The conclusion was that the way people think and feel towards others is s...
The gay rights movement has made great progress in the United States, compared to generations ago, with the legalization of marriage in some states, and also the gaining of certain equal rights. Many people today accept homosexuals within society, and society in general is more...
Whether it be for religious reasons, or simply because they are afraid of how people might react, many of the LGBT+ community live in fear, never telling people how they really feel. There are many gay, bi, transgender, and more, living on the street simply because their parents abandoned them once they had come out. “In America, up to 1.6 million youth experience homelessness each year. The statistics for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) homeless youth are even more shocking, as this group represents up to 40% all young people experiencing homelessness...Half of all teens get a negative reaction from their parents when they come out to them. More than 1 in 4 are thrown out of their homes” (True Colors Fund, 1). LGBT+ youth, representing around 7% of the total youth, find difficulty living the American Dream that they dreamed of as
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It is very reasonable to conclude that research on depression of those who identify as gay, lesbian or transsexual is not accurate; there is an underreporting of people who identify as these sexual orientations because of the fear of being different. It is understood that those apart of the LGBTQ community actively hide their identity in hopes to avoid being rejected or abused (Bird, 2013). Once the reporting issue of having a smaller percentage of the actual representation of the LGBTQ population is put aside, there is evidence that highly suggests that lesbians and gay men are at higher risk for psychiatric disorders than heterosexuals (Cochran, 2001). Even after underreporting, there is still enough information to conclude that sexual discrimination can have harmful effects on the quality of life. Common factors that have been observed in lesbians and gays that can potentially increase depression during Cochran's study are anxiety and mood disorders and decreased self esteem. Cochran and her partner also noted that dissatisfaction with how one is treated beca...
On Earth, the world population has reached over 7 billion people who belong to over 5000 ethnicities. With over 7 billion people, you would think there are some major differences in us all, but the most prominent difference is our skin color. With the difference in skin color has come prejudice towards certain ethnic or racial minorities and from that has stemmed discrimination. Take the civil rights movement of the 1960’s for example. Even after 50 years and with the election of President Barack Obama, African Americans still feel underrepresented and discriminated against. Another example is the Women’s Rights Movement which started in 1840 and is still prominent today. Just over a year ago a ban was finally lifted which kept women from fighting in combat over-seas. And still today, women are oppressed in the workforce due to the glass ceiling, an invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual’s gender, race, or ethnicity. A further example and the one that serves as the basis to this paper is the Stonewall riots, the beginning of the LGBT movement and societies view towards homosexuality since then. “This Gay Liberation movement, initiated by the Stonewall Riots in New York, expressed the twin intentions of discrediting psychiatric and medical models of homosexuality, and of attempting a large-scale transformation of society” (Downing, 2011). By the mid-1970s, the LGBT movement helped to establish gay identity as a legitimate minority group – the gay community.
There is very little research that has been done in the past on the mental health of LGBT individuals. In 1997 the federal center for Mental Health Services called for information to be compiled on the topic (Lucksted 3). Most of the information came from small publications, grass root information and self-reporting and even this information was incomplete because of the lesser reporting on people of the transgender and bisexual communities. This older report shows what the state of affairs was in ...
According to the research done in the year 2013 found that most of the LGBT community members were highly mistreated badly by their bosses who discriminated them in respect to their sexuality transgender and sex personality (Gates, 2011). This act did not please LGBT community and made them to go streets campaigning to be given their job rights and be respected by their employers.. Another report which was done in the same year by the National Black Justice Coalition found that majority of the LGBT community group around 50% who are black Africans were highly discriminated and segregated at workplace. They were not given equal rights like the other Americans but instead got fired from jobs and sometimes undermined. Around 22 states have passed laws making work separation because of sexual introduction unlawful 19 likewise incorporate sex personality LGBT specialist’s still need government assurance (Gates, 2011). Poverty is also another ethical issue experienced by LGBT community. Research demonstrates that against LGBT segregation affects LGBT specialists' monetary prosperity, prompting high rates of joblessness, vagrancy, weakness and sustenance instability. Seat found that LGBT laborers will probably acquire less every year contrasted with the general U.S. populace. Furthermore, from the analysis done about discrimination of LGBT community in employment showed that that Transgender people
In the United States, there are approximately 581,300 same sex couples, according to the American community survey of 2012. Approximately 253,576 are male to male and 300,890 are female to female households. (Lofquist & Ellis, 2011) It is clear that there is diversity of sexual taste.versity of sexual preference. Age wise is also not a very big difference since the sexual preference of a person could take place from child to elderly. Nevertheless the highest portion of same sex couples living in together would be between the ages of 45 and 54 which it being close to 30% followed by 25% of the ages 35 to 44. Approximately 88% of the LGBTQ population are from white origin followed by a capital deviation, which would be Hispanic with 10% and African American with 8%. The lowest would be of Asian origin coming in with about 3-5%. (American Community Survey, 2012) With such high numbers it has been understood that people being LBGTQ are coming out more. Se...
... gives a holistic insight to sex tourism. It discuss sex tourism through its definition, its demand population, the rationale, and global contradictions. This study was the most helpful and resourceful information that I used. The explanations were clear and precise.
Tourism is a typical activity of fashion that the public participate widely and it has grown in importance over recorded human history. Innumerable articles refer tourism as “the world’s largest industry”; policy-makers, analysts, and scholars often speak of the size of the tourism compared to that of other industries (Smith 2004: 26). These series of misleading statement, together with the mass media’s reports (out of context), make the idea that tourism is a single large industry branded into many people’s minds. However, in this essay I will demonstrate that it is a simplistic and misleading idea, which should be replaced by the plural term, “tourism industries”. Moreover, tourism is not the world’s largest industry, but largest service sector.
When one hears the words “LGBT” and “Homosexuality” it often conjures up a mental picture of people fighting for their rights, which were unjustly taken away or even the social emergence of gay culture in the world in the1980s and the discovery of AIDS. However, many people do not know that the history of LGBT people stretches as far back in humanity’s history, and continues in this day and age. Nevertheless, the LGBT community today faces much discrimination and adversity. Many think the problem lies within society itself, and often enough that may be the case. Society holds preconceptions and prejudice of the LGBT community, though not always due to actual hatred of the LGBT community, but rather through lack of knowledge and poor media portrayal.