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Spartacus Guide received award

For forty years now the Spartacus International Gay Guide stands for gay travelling in a save but adventurous style--now it received an award for this work.

The editorial team of our Spartacus International Gay Guide works continuously to present a yearly overview of all relevant addresses for gay tourists and globetrotter--up-to-date, comprehensive and world wide. Of course we do whatever we can to produce a guide thats worthy of the title "excellent". According to the IGLTA--the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association--we succeeded: Celebrating its 40th anniversary the Spartacus International Gay Guide has just been awarded with the Hanns Ebensten Hall of Fame Award by the IGLTA. This is an acknowledgment for our efforts in guiding gay men around the world, in save but adventurous style.

The 39th edition of the Spartacus International Gay Guide was released in March 2010. Beside 22.000 addresses on 1.216 pages from 128 countries worldwide ranging from hotels to clubs and even hot spots --the guide also gives information on the social and legal status of homosexuals in more than 190 countries around the globe.

The IGLTA is the only global organization dedicated to connecting businesses in the GLBT tourism industry. More than 2000 travel agency, hotels and other businesses worldwide are members of this US-based, non-profit association.

The Hanns Ebensten Hall of Fame Award is awarded in memorial of Hanns Ebensten, who died in 2006, aged 82. Ebensten was a pioneer of gay travelling. Back in the early 70ies he lead a group of gay men on a rafting trip through the Grand Canyon. In his book "Around the world in 80 years" he discusses the years he and his partner spent leading tours "for men only" all over the world.

posted in General, Announcements on 28.05.2010