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England football star to kick off Kew event
Sophie Griffiths
PLACES ARE quickly filling up for the second TTG LGBT networking evening event on September 3, which is being held at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. TTG is also proud to announce
that former England women’s captain Casey Stoney will be joining as the main speaker on the night. Thirty-three year
old Stoney (pictured) is one of the most well known women’s football players in England, with 122
DIARY DATE: The TTG LGBT event will be held at Cambridge Cottage in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew on September 3 at 7pm. Contact
lgbt@ttgdigital.com to register Places are strictly limited, so email soon to confirm your place.
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is the setting for the next event GETA INITIATIVE
Call for new ideas on how to measure tourist behaviour
TOURISM CHIEFS are calling on the LGBT community for ideas on how to find out what people like to get up to on their holidays. The Gay European Tourism Association (Geta) has teamed up with the business school Lisbon MBA and the Portuguese Tourism Board to find new ideas and technologies for measuring the behaviour of holidaymakers when they visit countries and cities, as part of a competition offering prizes worth €22,000.
22 20.08.2015 The groups want to create new
tools to allow measurement of tourist behaviour, such as where holidaymakers go, what they do and how much they spend. The tourism bodies are also
looking for new ways of collecting and analysing data, such as crowd sourcing. The winning entry will receive
€10,000 or an €18,000 scholarship for the Lisbon MBA. Two runners up will receive €2,000 cash. All three will be invited to present their
Geta has teamed up with Lisbon MBA and the Portuguese tourism board
ideas at a conference in Lisbon in September. “LGBT tourists are a hugely
international caps. She captained Team GB at the London 2012 Olympic Games, playing in front of record crowds of more than 70,000 at Wembley, and plays for Arsenal in the Women’s Super League. In 2014, she announced she
was gay and that her partner, former teammate Megan Harris, was
expecting twins. Harris gave birth to twins Teddy and Tilly in November. Last year Stoney was named ninth
on the Independent on Sunday’s 2014 Rainbow List of most influential LGBT figures in the UK, ahead of Tom Daley and Nicola Adams and in 2015 she was awarded an MBE for contributions to football. She also won a bronzemedal at the 2015 Women’s World Cup in Canada.
SPENDING POWER
Global LGBT market ‘worth $3.7 trillion’
THE ANNUAL spending power of the global LGBT market is estimated to be around $3.7 trillion, new data from an asset management company has found. LGBT Capital, which is the trading
arm of Galileo Capital Management, specialising in LGBT asset management and corporate advisory, has released what it describes as the first global estimates of LGBT spending power, LGBT household wealth, and LGBT inbound travel and tourism spend. The research focused on the US, estimating that the impact of LGBT travellers on global inbound tourism and travel is more than $20 billion in the US, and more than $5 billion “in each of several European countries”. The report added that the market
also had an impact on GDP in excess of 1% for some countries with high dependency on tourism in GDP. Paul Thompson, founder of LGBT
Capital, said: “Not only does the LGBT consumer represent significant spending power, but due to more frequent and longer travels, the sector punches well over its weight when it comes to tourism spend.”
important part of the $1.5 trillion tourist economy, spending over $200 billion annually,” said Carlos Kytka, Geta’s executive director. “If we are going to enhance their
experience and improve the facilities and services offered to them we need to have good data so that companies and destinations can make evidence- based improvements.” The competition is part of Geta’s
Promoting Innovation in LGBT Tourism programme, which has already seen initiatives such as the launch of Europe’s first LGBT language school holidays and partnering with the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office to provide official safety guidance to LGBT travellers.
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