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Diversity Rules Magazine
January 2015
e Gay European Tour-
ism Association (GETA)
has launched a LGBT Travel
Advice service to offer travel
advice to LGBT travellers in
Europe.
In a new travel advice section
on its website, GETA explains the difference in legal
and social attitudes to homosexuality across Western,
Central and Eastern Europe.
"Most countries in Europe welcome LGBT tourists"
said GETA's Executive Director, Carlos Kytka, "but
there are a few simple tips to make sure your trip is
safe."
GETA's new advice page forms part of the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office's (FCO) "Know Before You
Go" campaign which provides advice to Britons travel-
ling abroad.
GETA's five top tips for LGBT travellers in Europe
are:
1. Check the legal position of the countries you
are planning to visit using ILGA's Rainbow Europe
guide.
2. Remember that legal recognition and social accep-
tance may not be at the same level, particularly as you
move east.
3. Be particularly careful in the former Soviet Union
states where actions that could be construed as being
overtly homosexual (e.g. holding hands, kissing in
public, and insisting on double beds in a hotel) may
bring you to the attention of the authorities and anti-
gay vigilantes.
4. Be careful when using social media hook-up sites
which may be used for entrapment.
5. Cities tend to be more gay friendly than the coun-
tryside so adapt your behaviour accordingly.
You can visit GETA's travel advice page and link to the
FCO's "Know Before You Go" campaign at www.geta-
europe.org/gay-travel-advice-europe.php#.VB1eoPl_
t8E.
If you are going to be traveling in Europe, contact Paul
Barnes at pauldavoutbarnes@gmail.com or call him at
+44 (0)1727 737 986.
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GETA exists both to help businesses and organi-
sations involved in gay tourism in Europe to
prosper and grow and to help gay tourists have
the best possible holiday in Europe.
Membership of GETA is free to businesses and
organisations involved in European tourism who
agree to the GETA Pledge to welcome gay, lesbi-
an, bisexual and transexual customers and agree
to treat them with the same respect that they treat
all their customers.
GETA's travel website http://www.gaywelcome.
com is the most comprehensive guide for gay
travellers in Europe. You can see more about
GETA at www.geta-euope.org.
