25TH ANNIVERSARY IGLTA CONVENTION IN LAS VEGAS BREAKS RECORDS
by: Fred Lameck, OIA Newswire

25th Anniversary IGLTA
Convention Breaks Records

Gay Travel Leaders from 24 Nations Come to U.S. April
30-May 4 2008

The International Gay and Lesbian
Travel Association (IGLTA) is
set to celebrate its 25th
Anniversary in fabulous Las
Vegas, Nevada from April
30 to May 4th 2008. This
year's milestone convention is expected to set records with leading travel and
hospitality professionals from all over the world.

According to convention organizers, 25
countries including the U.S. will be represented in
Vegas. Delegations will include
Argentina,
Australia,
Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa
Rica, Croatia, Curacao,
Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Mauritius, Mexico, Peru, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Netherlands, Turkey, United
Kingdom, as well as the United States (including Puerto Rico).

With 434 registrations thus far, IGLTA has experienced a 67% increase
over last year's convention in Montreal and the
previous year in Washington
DC.

From Canada, four
provinces will be represented, with Ontario
being the largest at 21 attendees, and from the United States, there will be representatives from
29 states with the 3 largest delegations from California (53), Florida
(40) New York (33) and Nevada
(24).

The recently renovated Flamingo
Hotel, located in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip, will play host to the
Convention which will offer industry-leading speakers, educational workshops
covering a variety of travel-related topics, and networking receptions.

IGLTA is the world's largest, oldest and leading travel trade association
committed to growing and enhancing its members gay and lesbian tourism business
through education, promotion, and networking. If you own a business that is connected
in any way to the travel industry then IGLTA is the perfect organization to
connect your business to the world.
IGLTA Members include airlines, cruise lines, tourism offices, travel
agencies, accommodations, tour operators, publications, journalists, pride
events and more.

The Convention will be held concurrently with Las Vegas Pride which helps
showcase the organization's Trade Show, including travel vendors from around the
world as well as many of your favorite GLBT publications.

John Tanzella, Executive Director of the IGLTA, shares
his excitement: "Las Vegas is pulling out
all the stops to host us in their wonderful city. The benefit to our convention attendees
is substantial, both in terms of the "fun" factor and in enhancing their
experience as business professionals during our convention. We now can be certain this will be one
of our largest conventions ever."

Past Convention host cities have included Montreal, Canada; Washington,
D.C.; Cologne, Germany; Manchester, UK; among others.

In addition to educational aspect of the convention, IGLTA is offering
its attendees optional activities such as Pink Jeep Desert Tour, Hoover Dam
Discovery, Gays Gone by Tour, the Liberace Museum and Kayaking on Lake
Mead and Colorado River Rafting. Several Pre and Post tours are still in
the works including a Post-Tour to beautiful Palm Springs, California. For more information and registration,
please visit: www.IGLTA.org/convention.

Convention Website

Housed at www.iglta.org/convention/ website is ready to be
your one-stop shop for everything related to IGLTA's 2008 convention in
Las Vegas and
the legendary Flamingo Hotel. Here you will find links to registration, hotel
information and many other essential details. 2008 marks the 25th
anniversary of IGLTA and this convention will be sure to blow all other IGLTA
conventions out of the desert!

IGLTA (The
International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association) is the world's leading travel
trade association for the GLBT community. Founded in 1983, with only 25 members,
IGLTA currently has over 1000 members worldwide. IGLTA has consistently been
committed to growing and enhancing its members gay and lesbian tourism business
through education, promotion and networking.

For more information
about IGLTA, visit www.IGLTA.org. To become a member of IGLTA, visit: www.IGLTA.org/default.cfm or call +1.954.630.1637.

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