Where does one find guys that are intersted in travelling, camping, nature, wildlife, roughing it and generally just doing guy things ?
It seems that most gay travel sites are limited to gay cruises, tasteful B&B's. Where does the guys that describe themselves as butch, rugged, fit, adventerous and other such words go to find travel buddies, tours, trips venues, etc ?
An finally, is there a need or market for such activities ?
I am sure as the gay travel market matures overall, there will be more and more demand for that. All of these markets first start with people who are extremely and flamboyantly gay, and then spread to more mainstream gay people, and then finally the closet cases. As 'gay travel' becomes less about looking for sex, clubs, and dance parties, more and more people will be interested in what you ware talking about.
Permalink Reply by Tim on July 25, 2008 at 10:06pm
Hey, just my 2 cents: you should advertise to the rural gays. There are a lot of us who live in the rural or suburbs far from the city, and rural gay men tend to love the outdoors, fishing, hunting, and all that more than clubbing, fashion, ... You know what I mean.
i think ther is definately a market for such things
there is no cookie cutter mold for a gay/bi man some of us do enjoy hiking and camping etc...
living in arkansas opens up more opportunity for these activities though
Being Danish and hanging around a fjord or two, just a joke. I think that the perfect tool as opposed to Tim's statements is to appeal to the cosmopolitan male; the business elite, the entrepeneur. I have had many a friend from Germany, Switzerland, Japan,Korea,Lithuania,Poland,Norway,Denmark to Uganda come to my "camp"cottage in Northwestern Ontario for a week or so, and they loved it. They brought their luxury items of course, cognac and cigars, and many wanted to sleep in 'the tent" rather than the cottage with a certain co-camper. Nature takes its course and hey you can hear a lot during the still of the night over a quiet lake. I say bring them to the outback of Canada, gay or straight, and sure they will mix either that or kill themselves over some Pantene lotion. Think "Brokeback Mountain" there is your marketing tool, throw in a bit of "Bird Cage" or "Priscilla Queen of the Desert" and you have it made. Top it off with an outdoors man menu; breakfast: canned bully beef and hash, lunch: what ever you catch from the stream, dinner: roasted kolbasa (Garlic sausage) with baked potatoes. Worked for me in Greenland, and they are hard to please. And nothing like campfire talk before going to bed, such as "I think i need a sauna, anyone in for it", BINGO. Reservations for next year, please!! Give them a parting gift like a Stihl powersaw and they will be back , and they will tell two friends, and so on and so on.Georg, the Dane.
Permalink Reply by Cal on October 3, 2008 at 1:49am
I think that this is a great question cause just because men are gay, to me in general it look like that means that you stop doing all the fun things in life and are so self obsessed in frivolous junk! I like things 'pretty' but I also like roughing in on open waters and camping out in the wilderness without my curlers...lol
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