Just because we’re seeing more brands like Hilton and W taking full-page ads in gay publications doesn’t mean the same-sex niche is a new phenomenon. To see where it started, you need only look at longstanding gay vacation destinations like Fort Lauderdale and Key West, Fla., Provincetown, Mass. and Palm Springs, Calif. “And,” adds gay travel writer, Mark Chesnut, “areas like New York’s Fire Island, California’s Russian River Valley and New Hope, Penn., are also among the earliest where small, upscale hotels targeting gay travelers appeared.”
Chesnut, whose travel site LatinFlyer.com gives tourists of all stripes insight into LatAm destinations, warns innkeepers and hotel chains alike that putting up a rainbow flag and calling your place “gay-friendly” won’t build clientele. “My partner and I got weird looks from a hotel receptionist in Massachusetts just because we asked for a room with one king-sized bed.”
Guests at the Adonis Tulum Riviera Maya Gay Resort & Spa will suffer no such indignities. And on the whole, says E-Commerce Sales Executive Fernando García Castro, Mexico has come a long way in the arena of gay rights. “In the past, a same-sex kiss, or even a couple holding hands, was almost forbidden, but the gay community has been gaining respect throughout the country. It’s better every day.”
The Riviera Maya, he says, not unlike Puerto Vallarta, is something of a gay-friendly pioneer and therefore an ideal location for the all-inclusive resort, which opened last December. “The area has attracted residents from all over the world. That multicultural mix has created an open-minded, open-hearted population.”
At Adonis Tulum, says García Castro, “couples are free to be affectionate — kiss, hold hands, apply each other’s sunscreen — without regard from staff or guests. You can be yourself here, 100 percent.”
Adonis Tulum Riviera Maya Gay Resort & Spa
Chesnut, whose travel site LatinFlyer.com gives tourists of all stripes insight into LatAm destinations, warns innkeepers and hotel chains alike that putting up a rainbow flag and calling your place “gay-friendly” won’t build clientele. “My partner and I got weird looks from a hotel receptionist in Massachusetts just because we asked for a room with one king-sized bed.”
Guests at the Adonis Tulum Riviera Maya Gay Resort & Spa will suffer no such indignities. And on the whole, says E-Commerce Sales Executive Fernando García Castro, Mexico has come a long way in the arena of gay rights. “In the past, a same-sex kiss, or even a couple holding hands, was almost forbidden, but the gay community has been gaining respect throughout the country. It’s better every day.”
The Riviera Maya, he says, not unlike Puerto Vallarta, is something of a gay-friendly pioneer and therefore an ideal location for the all-inclusive resort, which opened last December. “The area has attracted residents from all over the world. That multicultural mix has created an open-minded, open-hearted population.”
At Adonis Tulum, says García Castro, “couples are free to be affectionate — kiss, hold hands, apply each other’s sunscreen — without regard from staff or guests. You can be yourself here, 100 percent.”
Adonis Tulum Riviera Maya Gay Resort & Spa
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