Tourism cashing in on the ‘pink dollar’
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The 'pink pound' or 'pink dollar' is believed to be worth billions of dollars, and tourism is one sector looking to benefit. We find out how the industry is trying to attract LGBT travellers, with countries like Nepal taking steps to be a more appealing destination.
Plus, we head to the coastal town of Sitges in Spain, where gay people have been holidaying for more than 100 years.
Producer/presenter: Daniel Rosney
(Photo: The Nomadic Boys in New Zealand. Credit: The Nomadic Boys)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello from the Mediterranean coast in Spain. |
| 0:05.4 | This is Business Daily from the BBC World Service, and my name is Daniel Rosny. |
| 0:11.0 | And the sound you can hear are waves crashing into this golden, sanded beach. |
| 0:16.2 | The weather is warm, the water, not so much. |
| 0:19.5 | And that's because we are still a few months away from the peak |
| 0:22.5 | summer holiday season here in Europe. And we're going to be talking about this region later in the |
| 0:28.8 | programme. As our focus on this episode is about the rise of LGBT tourism globally. It's worth hundreds |
| 0:35.9 | of billions of US dollars and in the past 10 years has had a |
| 0:40.2 | massive boom across the world with some countries now pumping a lot of money into marketing |
| 0:45.7 | themselves as an LGBT friendly destination wanting to cash in on the pink currency. We'll be hearing |
| 0:52.6 | from Nepal, which is hoping to make waves in the market, |
| 0:56.3 | the US, where tour operators are considering whether some countries are now safe for lesbian, |
| 1:02.1 | gay, bisexual and transgender people to visit, and from here in Ciches, Europe's gay resort capital. |
| 1:09.2 | But first, let's speak with two travel vlogging experts |
| 1:12.9 | who've seen the industry change over the past decade. I'm Stefan and I'm Sebastian. We're a gay |
| 1:20.3 | couple. We've been together for 15 years and we have a gay travel blog called Nomadic Boys. |
| 1:27.0 | Hey guys, it's our final night in Bangkok. |
| 1:30.4 | And Sebi's got something to say. |
| 1:32.7 | If you can't love yourself, how to hell are you going to love somebody else? |
| 1:36.6 | There was no content at the time. |
| 1:38.2 | In 2014, when we started traveling as a gay couple, |
| 1:41.0 | we couldn't find any information online. |
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