NYT Travel Show: LGBT Panels Take Off

If you’ve got the travel bug, be sure to be at the Javits Convention Center in New York City February 27-28 for the New York Times Travel Show and expo.

With over 500 exhibiting companies, five Regions of the World Pavilion Stages, seven Travel Trade Conferences featuring 34 conference sessions, the Travel Industry Reception, 24 Consumer Conference sessions, and the Tourism Cares live auction benefiting the September 11 Memorial & Museum Fund, there will be no shortage of informative avenues to help you hone your knowledge and skills as a jet-set world traveler.

Most important, don’t miss the two LGBT conferences that weekend cohosted by PlanetOut Travel contributor and gay travel guru Ed Salvato and friends. The world’s foremost gay and lesbian travel experts will update you on the world’s gay-friendliest destinations, hotels, cruises, airlines, and more. Attendees will also have access to special deals and offers available exclusively to gay travel panel audience members.

You have two chances to catch the ultimate Gay & Lesbian Travel conference at the NYT Travel Show:

Session 1: Saturday, 2 p.m.-2:50 p.m.; Session 2: Sunday, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.

Gay Travel: Hot New Destinations, Events, Tours, and Cruises:
Salvato, travel editor and writer, contributor to PlanetOut.com, and editor in chief of EdSalvato.com, Jeff Guaracino, GPTMC and author of Gay and Lesbian Tourism: The Essential Guide for Marketing, and Tom Nibbio of the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association share information on planning your next GLBT vacation, from cruising in the Caribbean to traveling to gay-friendly destinations in the United States and abroad. Book signing follows at the on-site Borders Bookstore.

For more info visit: http://www.nyttravelshow.com/Travel-Seminars.html

Full details can be found at http://www.nytimes.com/travelshow.

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