GSBA Luncheon - Open to All: Appealing to the LGBT Traveler

• Hear from Merryn Johns (Curve Magazine) and Ed Salvato (ManAboutWorld) about marketing your company to LGBT visitors. • See the debut of the 2014-15 GSBA Guide & Directory • Learn about Visit Seattle's Marry Me in Seattle campaign Presented in partnership with Visit Seattle. Sponsored by Holland America Line. About our speakers: MERRYN JOHNS is editor in chief of Curve magazine, North America's top lesbian publication. She has championed lesbian travel, culture and women's rights through journalism and as a speaker at global conferences. Johns began her media career in 2000 as editor in chief of the lesbian magazine LOTL in Australia. ED SALVATO: a global LGBT travel expert, Salvato is immersed in LGBT travel and tourism from nearly every angle: editorial, marketing, communications, product development, sponsorships, events, public speaking and mroe. He is best known as an editor at some of the world's most authoritative gay travel magazines and websites, including Out Traveler, PlanetOut Travel, and Advocate Travel.