3 New Apps Reimagine the User Experience for Event, LGBT and Cultural Travel

Three new apps are providing a more informed travel experience for LGBT business travelers, conference attendees, and museum visitors. All three solve a specific challenge encountered by everyone in those communities. LGBT business travelers can now travel safer with more nuanced insight into the local laws of gay-unfriendly countries. Museum visitors can explore exhibits more seamlessly with Wi-Fi-driven, indoor proximity technology. And conference attendees now have a new Tinder-style connectivity platform for improved business networking at evening events. LGBT Business Travel Gay men who participate in consensual adult sex with another man in countries like India, Saudi Arabia and Qatar face life imprisonment if convicted. Punishment is less severe in places like St. Kitts where anyone caught in the "abominable crime" of same-sex relations faces 10 years in prison, with or without hard labor. In Tanzania, the minimum sentence is 30 years. While those laws are clearly identified by the U.S. State Department and advocacy platforms like Scruff, many LGBT business travelers are nervous when their companies send them to hyper-conservative countries like those. Most corporations today don't have LGBT-specific information in their human resource literature relating to social mores outside the U.S. for their employees traveling on company business. To address that, gay travel experts at the Man About World media group launched a comprehensive Business Travel Guide last month that helps LGBT executives understand potential risks when traveling in countries with laws against homosexuality. The guide provides a wealth of instruction about ho