Gayvan.com Travel Marketing is a Vancouver-based company, with extensive connections in the international gay and lesbian travel industry. We are also well connected locally, in the Vancouver region's LGBT communities, and are active in the mainstream business and travel industry within Canada and beyond.
Our website is an extension of our experience, with over 20 years of mainstream hotel and bar management, sales and marketing, event production, a decade of serving on local and international GLBT boards, three years of running a gay hotel and bar in Vancouver (The Royal), and over a dozen years of living in the heart of Davie Village in Vancouver. Current, regularly updated information provides an interactive resource for consumers, travel agents, travel industry providers, and those wanting to reach the LGBT community.
We own and operate our own secure, online, Hotel Reservations System , and maintain ongoing relations with the management of all of our gay-friendly hotel partners. In over nine years of operation, we are happy to say that we have not heard of any challenges (GLBT related), at any of our participating hotels. 
We produce two full colour, annual print productions; our Gay Friendly Vancouver - In Town Guide, and our Gay Friendly Canada publication. Visitors can pick up free copies at the Tourism Vancouver Visitor Centre, Little Sister's Bookstore in Davie Village, major downtown hotel concierge desks, and at various venues throughout the city. We also take our publications on the road, to promote Vancouver and Canada internationally at LGBT special events. To see a sample, you can browse digital versions by clicking on the cover images on the right.
We also offer consulting services for organizations wanting to explore ways to further reach out to LGBT travelers and consumers. We will be happy to discuss details further on request. Feel free to give us a call, or send us an email.
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We are often contacted by a variety of mixed media outlets, and journalists, for information on Vancouver, and Canada, as well as our views on events and topics of interest related to the LGBT community. We also work with some of our partners in tourism, to co-host visiting LGBT journalists interested in a community perspective. Following are links to a few articles of interest in which we had a mention:
Vancouver Sun: http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Road+same+marriage+both+sides+border+fraught+with+obstacles+debate/5168540/story.html
Vancouver Sun: http://www.vancouversun.com/life/pink+dollar+Business+begun+reach+lesbian+community/5148864/story.html
Passport Magazine http://www.passportmagazine.com/destinations/Vancouver.php
Edge New York City http://www.edgenewyork.com/index.php?ch=travel&sc=&sc3=&id=87221&pg=1
Gay Times London http://www.david-hudson.co.uk/archive/vancouver.html
The Bay Area Reporter http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=3000
Loop Canada (Japanese) http://www.loopp.com/01/canadainfo/gaycommunity.php/
Vancouver Sun http://www2.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=3ef2c960-a2f6-4eb2-9d6e-a55f8ca89edc&k=99857&p=1
Xtra Archives http://archives.xtra.ca/Story.aspx?s=2280496
Vancouver Sun http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=02702c94-300a-4029-9639-715344d2c35f
About.com http://gaytravel.about.com/od/vancouvergaytravel/Stories_about_travel_in_gay_Vancouver.htm
Seattle Gay News http://www.sgn.org/sgnnews34_33/page23.cfm
Canadian Encyclopedia http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTM0012589
Free Dominion http://freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=859349&sid=cad37955f363b5d559058f944af8751d
Gay Newsnet http://gaynewsblog.net/2008/05/vancouvers-still-prime-gay-tourist.html
Edge Chicago http://www.edgechicago.com/?87221
Xtra.ca http://www.xtra.ca/public/Vancouver/Group_gauges_support_for_Outgames_bid-4102.aspx
Canada.com http://www.canada.com/vancouvercourier/news/story.html?id=3e816f62-b534-44cc-b802-19a8766124e1
Xtra.ca http://www.xtra.ca/public/Vancouver/City_council_rejects_funding_for_lesbian_tourism-5201.aspx
BC Business http://www.bcbusinessonline.ca/node/1188
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Gayvan.com Travel Marketing
1808-1150 Jervis Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6E 2C8
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