Day: April 16, 2017

Young LGBTQI participants of Proactividad learn about the hospitality industry during an intensive introduction to hospitality and tourism during a job-training seminar at Villa La Pasarela at Casa de Campo in the Dominican Republic. (Photo: Nicole Clausing)

Ethical Travel in the Digital Age

Talk about a buzzkill.

I’m in the middle of a trip to the Dominican Republic. It’s a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex-themed trip, part of a program called Tolerance Through Tourism. The idea is that by simply being an openly gay person and traveling in the developing world, you help people living in traditionally homophobic cultures to see that LGBTQI people are not so strange.

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