Travel. Learn. Connect.
The IGLTA Foundation empowers LGBTQ+ welcoming tourism businesses globally through leadership, research, and education.
The Foundation's Fellowship Program provides funding and mentorship to selected LGBTQ+ small business leaders, young professionals and students, giving them the resources to attend the IGLTA Global Convention and contributing to their professional LGBTQ+ tourism development. All convention registration fees and travel expenses are included in the program. Recipients will have the opportunity to network with travel industry leaders from around the world and attend all educational sessions.
IGLTAF will award David Martin Small Business Fellowships to LGBTQ+ small travel business owners (global) and Building Bridges Fellowships to tourism/hospitality students (host city). A post-conference follow-up program will be enacted to measure the success of the program.
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Global in reach, this category targets LGBTQ+ small business owners. The Fellowship is named in honor of our late IGLTA ambassador for Spain, David Martin, a dedicated supporter of LGBTQ+ business. Aisha Shaibu, pictured below, was selected in 2020 and due to the pandemic, had her fellowship deferred to 2022.
Who will join her this year? The application deadine is 1 May!
Aisha Shaibu is a prominent queer activist, cultural producer, and one of the 'Top 100 LGBTQ+ trailblazers' changing the world. She is the founder of Moonlight Experiences: an award-winning platform dedicated to the celebration of queer culture through travel and experiences. Moonlight Experiences exists to tackle the lack of diversity in the travel industry by harnessing the economic power of tourism & nightlife to uplift queer women, non-binary, and Black/POC members. Aisha's passion for travel as part of @thequeernomads with her wife and her activism are intertwined, she is also the Head of Community Engagement at UK Black Pride and a trustee for GiveOut. Aisha truly believes in breaking down intersectional barriers and advocating for avid travelers to do better to create change that is impactful and sustainable so that our community globally can thrive.
Thank you to our IGLTAF Fellowship Founding Partner
Photo by: © 2018, Gene Phillips, Courtesy of ACVB & AtlantaPhotos.com
Clovis Casemiro, IGLTA’s Membership Coordinator-Brazil, visited Atlanta for the first time prior to the pandemic and shares his impressions of IGLTA’s 2021 convention host city.
By John Tanzella, IGLTA President/CEO, iglta@iglta.org
