Same-sex marriage fuels tourism for gays and lesbians
http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=15825_0_1_0_M10/20/2008
The world has gotten a lot bigger and a lot friendlier for gay and lesbian travelers since Hanns Ebensten led a group of men down the Colorado River in 1972. Three years later, he booked a cruise to the Galapagos Islands for 65 men.
Ebensten was onto something. He was the first travel agent to book gay vacations, and his daring all those years ago is widely viewed as the founding of gay travel — a $60 billion business today that cities and vacation hot spots spend millions of dollars to attract.
It's been escalating during the past 10 years and could be fueled even more by legalized marriage for gays and lesbians. Now that Connecticut has joined California and Massachusetts in legalizing gay marriage, more honeymoon trips are expected all around the world.
