Austria Wants More Homosexuals -- "DINKs" (Double Income No Kids)
Photo ~ Gay Viennese Waltz
In the past couple of years, the tourism mafia of Austria has discovered a new target group: Gay and lesbian tourists. Since then, the amount of advertising to this group of people has steadily increased - to a suspicious extent, given that Austria is a thoroughly conservative country.
This has a simple reason: Many homosexual couples on tour are "DINKs" (Double Income No Kids) and thus spend more money than the average tourist. This makes gays and lesbians attractive guests for hotels, bars and shops, which have started to develop "custom-made" offers for homosexuals.
The tourism mafia behaves as if the needs and interests of homosexual guests were in some way fundamentally different from the rest of Salzburg's millions of visitors. Have you ever come across a "hetero-friedly hotel"? Seen an article on "Salzburg for Heteros"? We haven't.
Vienna's Queer Ball
In the past couple of years, the tourism mafia of Austria has discovered a new target group: Gay and lesbian tourists. Since then, the amount of advertising to this group of people has steadily increased - to a suspicious extent, given that Austria is a thoroughly conservative country.
This has a simple reason: Many homosexual couples on tour are "DINKs" (Double Income No Kids) and thus spend more money than the average tourist. This makes gays and lesbians attractive guests for hotels, bars and shops, which have started to develop "custom-made" offers for homosexuals.
The tourism mafia behaves as if the needs and interests of homosexual guests were in some way fundamentally different from the rest of Salzburg's millions of visitors. Have you ever come across a "hetero-friedly hotel"? Seen an article on "Salzburg for Heteros"? We haven't.
Vienna's Queer Ball