Goa to Get Gay Tourists in October

NEW DELHI, AUG 2
Delhi-based travel agency Indjapink.co.in is arranging a special exclusive gay group tour to Goa in October. Charges for the four-day trip to Goa are Rs15,000 per person. For the trip, Indja Pink has also booked a sea-front hotel exclusively for their gay male group.

The travel agency plans to invite the local gay group in Goa for parties on the beaches. “There will also be other entertainment programmes," says Puneet Kumar, manager for Indja Pink. “We have a customised tour package, depending on whether the person wants to travel by a car or a chartered flight. The tour is completely decided by the tourist. We just help him reach conveniently and take care that he gets the best in that location," says Kumar.

House tours, cooking classes, visits to spas, the best massages and gay parties: “We can arrange them all," says the website, which also says that if you are a single, the tour operators will pair you up with “pleasant and compatible" roommate.

Why call the website Indja Pink? The owners say that India in Latin is "Indja" and pink is the colour associated with the gay community. Indjapink.co.in offers personalised tours for gay men that include cooking classes, parties and spa trips. The minimum charges for a tour are between Rs 7,500-8,000 and there is no fixed upper limit. The website is nearly a year old. Created by Delhi-based fashion designer Sanjay Malhotra, it offers customised tours for gays across the country, for gays residing in India and foreigners who want to visit India.

Before Article 377 was read down by the Delhi High Court on July 2, there were one or two queries daily, says Malhotra. But now the number has gone up to four to five a day from Indians and also from foreigners, especially from Zurich, he says.

Malhotra says he started the website because he's a passionate traveller himself and is also aware about the problems that gay travellers face because of their "tag". Source : http://oheraldo.in