The LGBTQ+ traveler is a premium, high-frequency, brand-loyal guest — and chooses where to stay based on who makes them feel genuinely welcome. Partner with Pink Media for the most comprehensive yet targeted reach into LGBTQ+ travelers. A focused, three-pronged approach built for hotels, resorts, hospitality brands, and destinations.
The Opportunity
There are a variety of ways in which we can market your property — from luxury and boutique resorts to city hotels, all-inclusives, and destination brands. Partner with Pink Media for the most comprehensive yet targeted reach into the highly-coveted LGBTQ+ consumer, with a focus on Hotels & Resorts. LGBTQ+ travelers take more trips, spend more per trip, and reward genuine welcome with lasting loyalty — but they choose carefully, and they can tell a rainbow sticker from a real one.
First, we focus on getting your property out to a hyper-targeted LGBTQ+ audience online via in-market travel data selects — travelers showing destination and booking intent — layered onto community inventory, geo-targeted to your feeder markets down to ZIP level, with CTV for destination storytelling. Second, we run share-of-voice social, ensuring your property is part of the LGBTQ+ travel conversation. Third, we curate and amplify real-guest UGC: stay stories, property galleries, and destination moments, with your brand at the center.
This includes our #ILoveGay Network, now reaching over 1.5 million LGBTQ+ followers, plus influencer stay hosting with destination cost-sharing. Our success metrics are based on the visibility and performance we provide: impressions, reach, click-throughs, and engagement.
Our Campaign Framework
A comprehensive strategy that reaches LGBTQ+ travelers through in-market advertising, social share-of-voice, AND curated real-guest UGC amplification — simultaneously.
Travelers showing destination and booking intent, targeted via data selects layered onto LGBTQ+ programmatic inventory — display, mobile, and video — geo-targeted to your feeder markets down to ZIP level, with CTV and ACR for destination storytelling.
We monitor LGBTQ+ travel, destination, and hospitality conversations and ensure your property is part of them — organically and through paid amplification via our #ILoveGay network — across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads and more.
The market's richest content: real-guest stay stories, property galleries, and destination moments, curated and shared with your brand at the center — plus influencer stay hosting with destination cost-sharing.
The most-studied vertical in the LGBTQ+ marketplace. Our editorial summary covers the traveler's spending power and trip frequency, the destination and booking journey, the role of welcome and safety, the operators and OTAs, and how hotels, resorts, and destinations win LGBTQ+ guests — with a full report available to buy or subscribe.
Targeting Capabilities
Pink Media's programmatic travel targeting platform comes ready with built-in features that go far beyond standard LGBTQ+ advertising.
Destination- and booking-intent audiences built from leading data marketplaces — reaching LGBTQ+ travelers at the top of the planning funnel.
Target and report by any region — country, state, DMA, ZIP code, or hyperlocal radius around your property and feeder metros.
Connected TV with ACR technology on all smart devices — ideal for property and destination storytelling.
Built-in campaign feature to adhere to the Digital Advertising Alliance's (DAA) rules & regulations — compliant by default.
The Data Behind LGBTQ+ Travel
A snapshot from CMI's LGBTQ Travel Study — the dataset behind the LGBTQ+ Travel Market Guide, and the case for hotels and resorts.
Estimated annual LGBTQ+ traveler spending — a premium, high-frequency segment for hotels and resorts.
LGBTQ+ travelers take more leisure trips than the general population — repeat, high-value guests.
Genuine welcome and safety are decisive in where LGBTQ+ travelers book — authenticity wins the stay.
This traveler returns to — and recommends — the properties that show up authentically, year after year.
Source: CMI 23rd Annual LGBTQ Travel Study — the hospitality and destination data behind Pink Media's Travel Market Guide.
Sources: Community Marketing & Insights (CMI) LGBTQ Travel Study, and industry estimates, as compiled in Pink Media's Travel Market Guide. Read the summary.
Pink Media brings 30 years of LGBTQ+ marketing expertise — an NGLCC-certified LGBT Business Enterprise and IGLTA member — to the hospitality market, reaching premium, high-frequency LGBTQ+ travelers for hotels, resorts, and destinations, 24/7, 365 days per year. We work with any budget, starting at $500 per month.
Ready to Connect?
One partner. A clear plan. Real results. Tell us about your property or destination and let's build a strategy that reaches the right LGBTQ+ travelers — and wins both the booking and the loyalty.