Casa Sirena Hotel Boutique in Cancun, Mexico

PinkChoice is very excited to announce that Casa Sirena Hotel Boutique located in Cancun, Mexico has been added to our listings!
If you have stayed at Casa Sirena Hotel Boutique recently post a review about your experience.

BBB Inn in Bangkok, Thailand

PinkChoice is pleased to add the BBB Inn in Bangkok, Thailand.
The BBB Inn is part of the BBB Group. It is exclusively gay with 17 standard and 6 deluxe rooms, located 1-2 minutes walk from all the major gay bars in theSilom/Surawong Area. It is approximately 35 km from the new Bangkok airport. The 24 hour coffee shop serves drinks, and food from outside. The facilities include Pool table, reading corner, meeting place, Internet Café with wireless access.
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Hotel Es Vive in Ibiza, Spain

PinkChoice is very excited to announce that Hotel Es Vive located in Ibiza, Spain has been added to our listings!
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Villa Mazarin in Paris, France

PinkChoice is very excited to announce that Villa Mazarin located in Paris, France has been added to our listings!
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Sandy Hook Cottage B & B in Highlands, USA

PinkChoice is pleased to announce that Sandy Hook Cottage B & B located in Highlands, USA has been added to our listings!

Located in Highlands, New Jersey, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean at Sandy Hook Bay, Sandy Hook Cottage enjoys panoramic views spanning from New York City to the beaches of Long Island, New York.

"The Cottage" is an intimate, New Jersey Shore bed and breakfast offering magnificent accommodations and warm, friendly hospitality. Perfect for romantic getaways, honeymoons, birthday celebrations, anniversaries or a well-deserved, relaxing break.

It is located less than a one hour drive from New York City or only thirty-five minutes on the scenic "Seastreak" fast ferry direct from Manhattan. In addition it is only ninety minutes from Philadelphia and less from the Bucks County suburbs.

If you have stayed at Sandy Hook Cottage B & B recently post a review about your experience.

Observations from HotelChatter.com - and a call for More Gay Sydney!

A tip of the cap to HotelChatter.com for pointing out one of the gay travel community's biggest needs in their post about our great first year: more information about some of the world's best vacation spots. Pink Choice agrees - we're proud to have our members on board and are excited to bring more hotels and resorts into the picture through their reviews.

We stand by our assertion that Sydney is indeed one of the prime gay friendly destinations in the world. If you've been to a Sydney hot spot and want to share, log in and let us know the details!

Happy Birthday to Us!

We were thrilled to announce our first anniversary today, and hope you'll join us in celebrating a great first year!

Since launching in 2006, Pink Choice has expanded to include over 200 global destinations covering 1000 hotels, inns and guesthouses. The site’s membership is strong and growing stronger, with over 800 unique visitors per day reading and posting reviews.

“Gay travel is changing before our eyes, with destinations literally branding themselves pink to attract the gay traveler – and the gay dollar,” said Trevor Pinker, co-founder of Pink Choice. “This is a great movement, but travelers need to hear real voices amid the marketing speak: they can help our global community know before they pack their bags whether their destination will welcome them with open arms. We’re proud to be providing a forum for those voices.”

The site’s rising popularity corresponds to findings of a study by MarketResearch.com in association with Witeck-Combs Communications (The Gay and Lesbian Market in the US, Fifth Edition, February 2007). The study cites that “nearly half (48%) of gay men and lesbians (47%) believe that the degree of gay-friendliness of a destination is important, very important, or extremely important in deciding where to travel.” This from a community that, according to the study, is comprised of frequent travelers and weighs in with an estimated 2006 buying power of $660 billion, with that number projected to exceed $835 billion by 2011.

“Let’s face it: the gay and lesbian community enjoys travel, but can’t always be sure they know what they’ll find when they reach their destination,” said Stephen Mascilo, co-founder of Pink Choice. “Unbiased, honest reviews about the things that matter most was a need that wasn’t being addressed, and we are proud to have taken the right steps to make a difference to our members.”

The travel community has responded as well: advertisers on the website include the Canadian Tourist Board, the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association, the Provincetown Business Guild, the World’s Foremost Gay and Lesbian Hotels, BeYou Travel, Cape Air, and many individual hotels and guesthouses from around the world. Apart from advertising, Pink Choice encourages gay friendly properties to list on the site and travelers to submit comments that will help the community.

At year’s end, www.pinkchoice.com will issue its Pink Choice Awards to recognize properties that stand out based on the number and quality of the reviews they receive.

Trends in Pink Prominence

There's a lot of talk about the gay dollar lately, as a couple of studies show in plain numbers just how staggering powerful we are. No surprise to us, of course, although it seems to be news to some industries that are now stampeding to attract that pink money.

This is a good thing! And we at Pink Choice are proud to be a part of guiding travelers through all that stampeding. In fact, we're called out along with other areas that are worth watching in this Forever Trends series - check it out to learn more about industries that are finally catching on.