{"id":94608359,"date":"2012-01-26T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/tel-aviv-named-top-gay-destination\/"},"modified":"2014-09-26T12:25:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T12:25:55","slug":"tel-aviv-named-top-gay-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/tel-aviv-named-top-gay-destination\/","title":{"rendered":"Tel Aviv Named Top Gay Destination"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 450px; height: 340px;\" title=\"Tel Aviv Named Top Gay Destination, Flickr; upyernoz\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2012\/1\/TelAviv12.png\" alt=\"Tel Aviv Named Top Gay Destination, Flickr; upyernoz\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Beach Life in Tel Aviv<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Perfect weather, a liberal nightlife and huge government investment have lead to Tel Aviv becoming the 2012 gay vacation spot of choice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Tel Aviv officials have devoted $100,000 in international marketing to attracting gay visitors, well over a third of the country\u2019s international marketing budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Pini Shani, an official in the Tourism Ministry told the Associated Press, \u2018We\u2019ve long recognized the economic potential of the gay community. The gay tourist is a quality tourist, who spends money and sets trends.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Beyond government spending, Tel Aviv has successfully lured gay travelers with a recently-opened gay hotel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Acclaimed by readers of GayCities and American Airlines passengers as the \u2018Best Gay City of 2011,&#8217; Tel Aviv raced ahead of New York, London and Toronto as a welcoming haven for the LGBT community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Flights to Tel Aviv have also become more available with the addition of Easyjet flights from London and Switzerland, so why not let CheapOair find you cheap flights and hotel deals?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Tel Aviv welcomed 2.7 million tourists last year and was placed on the top ten \u2018beach cities\u2019 list collated by National Georgraphic. Clearly, this exciting city is not exclusive to the gay community, as many straight travelers have begun to enjoy the more liberal Tel Aviv atmosphere that remains unmatched in the Middle East. Tel Aviv is a buzzing city and one well-worth a visit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><em>Source:\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/tel-aviv-emerges-top-gay-tourist-destination-063457966.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Yahoo\/Associated Press<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Photo:\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/upyernoz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">upyernoz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beach Life in Tel Aviv Perfect weather, a liberal nightlife and huge government investment have lead to Tel Aviv becoming the 2012 gay vacation spot of choice. Tel Aviv officials have devoted $100,000 in international marketing to attracting gay visitors, well over a third of the country\u2019s international marketing budget. Pini Shani, an official in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94608359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94608359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97170186,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608359\/revisions\/97170186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94608359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94608359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94608359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}