Celebrate Oktoberfest Mexico-Style in Cabo San Lucas

Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico (PRWEB) September 12, 2008 -

International beer and food pairings are the highlight of the week-long OktobeerFiesta at Casa Dorada Los Cabos’ The B Lounge. The beer festival honors Germany’s world-renowned Oktoberfest and takes place from October 11th-19th. The week commences on the 11th with the presentation of the Weisnbier beer, a live local rock band and Mexican and German snacks.

From the 12th -15th, local beer connoisseur Jordan Gardenhire of Baja Brewing Company, Southern Baja’s only micro-brewery, hosts beer tastings with beers from Germany, Mexico, Asia, and the Mediterranean that will be paired with ethnic fare from their respective regions. Wrapping up the festivities, a Cuban salsa group and DJ spinning the latest tracks perform the 17th and 18th. OktobeerFiesta events start at 7 p.m. nightly. Casa Dorada offers the OktobeerFiesta package that includes three nights’ accommodations in a Junior Suite, daily open international beer bar from 10 a.m. – 11 p.m., one beer pairing event per person, and all taxes and gratuities. The package for two is $ 998. When staying in a one bedroom suite, the package for two costs $ 1,198. OktobeerFiesta events are also open to the public for $ 30 per person, per night. For reservations, please call (866) 448-0151 or visit http://www.casadorada.com.

Celebrate Oktoberfest Mexico-Style in Cabo San Lucas

$50,000 Gay Wedding Gift to Celebrate New Argentina Equal Marriage Laws

Buenos Aires, Argentina (PRWEB) July 29, 2010

In two weeks time, lesbians and gay men living in Argentina will begin to legally marry, and the city of Buenos Aires has just received a wedding gift worth more than $ 50,000 to celebrate.

The move has been welcomed by the City of Buenos Aires Tourism Ministry – as Out Now, a global specialist gay marketing agency, has just donated over $ 50,000 worth of staff training to help educate the city’s tourism and hospitality sector on how to deliver customer service which best understands lesbian and gay travelers needs.

In announcing the gift, Out Now’s CEO – Ian Johnson – said his company was honored to thank Argentina for taking such an important step for gays and lesbians worldwide. He announced that Out Now is to make its GayComfort program widely and freely available to the tourism sector – right across Argentina’s capital city, Buenos Aires.

“The importance of next month’s move to equality for lesbian and gay people living in Argentina cannot be overstated,” Johnson says. “By this one action, Argentina has sent a signal to the world that this is a modern country, where equal means equal – for all its citizens.”

“As a result, lesbian and gay people around the world are now more likely to add Buenos Aires to the top of their tourism hit-list,” Johnson said.

“Out Now is delighted to make our leading industry-standard GayComfort training and certification program available to all of Buenos Aires’ hotel sector – at no cost,” Johnson said. “It is our way to say thank you for taking this step – which inspires gay and lesbian people in the country, in the region and around the world.”

Buenos Aires becomes the first Latin American city to become certified in Out Now’s GayComfort training and certification program. Other GayComfort certified cities also include Berlin, Tel Aviv, Stockholm, Helsinki and Australia’s Gold Coast.

GayComfort certification sets the standard in training staff on LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) sensitivity issues. By preparing frontline staff, hotels learn how to deliver enhanced customer service to meet the travel concerns of lesbian and gay travelers when on vacation.

Many of the world’s leading hotel brands at locations around the world are also already part of this program. Leading global tour operators – including Air Canada Vacations, Mark Travel Corporation and TUI – are also partners in the GayComfort program.

About Out Now

Out Now is a global LGBT market specialist with two decades of marketing experience relied upon by leading brands including IBM, Toyota, TUI, Lufthansa, German National Tourist Office, Merck, Sony Music, Barclays, Lloyds TSB and Citibank.

About GayComfort

GayComfort is a trademark of Out Now. It delivers online training in four languages (Spanish, French, German and English) to tourism and hospitality staff working around the world. It is designed not to treat gay customers differently, but to treat them the same as all other customers – as equally worthy of respect as valued customers. GayComfort training leads to hotels becoming GayComfort certified so that lesbian and gay customers can ‘know before they go’ where to stay on vacation.

FURTHER INFORMATION:

Ian Johnson, CEO, Out Now

info(at)OutNowConsulting(dot)com

http://www.OutNowConsulting.com

http://www.GayComfort.com

Phone:

+55 – 11- 3020 3429

+1 – 310 – 878 4878

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Thousands in 25 Countries to Celebrate 1st Global Oneness Day Oct. 24; Tutu, Ono, Chopra, Beckwith, Keating Among Supporters

Boulder, Colo. (PRWEB) October 18, 2010

Thousands of people in more than 25 countries will celebrate the first Global Oneness Day Oct. 24 by demonstrating humanitys inner unity and outer diversity, organizers announced today.

The day — initiated by the global grassroots Humanitys Team movement and supported by the Association for Global New Thought and some three dozen other groups — is a day when the greatness of the whole is reflected in the greatness of its parts, Humanitys Team Worldwide Coordinating Director Steve Farrell said.

It is also a day that is a key steppingstone toward creating lasting peace in the world, organizers said.

Lasting peace requires that we awaken humanity to our underlying oneness, educate people to the beauty of our diversity and alert the world to the imperative that we must embody these values so that life as we know it may not only be preserved, but renewed and transformed, AGNT President the Rev. Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith said.

PROMINENT GLOBAL ONENESS DAY SUPPORTERS include South African Nobel Peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu; artist-musician Yoko Ono; spiritual writers Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Neale Donald Walsch and Andrew Harvey; Trappist monk and priest Father Thomas Keating; futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard, and U.N. Culture of Peace emissary Anwarul K. Chowdhury.

The day, planned as the first annual worldwide celebration, provides opportunities for individuals, organizations and nations to create practical acts demonstrating unity, diversity, harmony and compassion on a shared date, comparable to what happens on Earth Day.

Practical action will provide tangible, experiential proof of how we can live when we come from a place of oneness, Beckwith said. It will encourage us all to expand our hopes, beliefs and behaviors so that at any moment oneness may permeate all aspects of life.

Would the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have occurred if humanity had already recognized we are all one? Beckwith said. Would we now tolerate accelerated global warming, extreme poverty and hunger, and gender inequality? Would we fight each other under the banner of organized religion and in the name of God?

Recognizing the oneness of humanity and all of life is the key to solving most chronic and acute world problems, Beckwith said.

U.N. ENVOY: NO PEACE WITHOUT ONENESS

Indeed, peace efforts will continue to fail until people embrace humanitys oneness, Chowdhury said May 20 on receiving a grassroots plea to the United Nations, signed by more than 50,000 people from 168 countries, appealing to the world body to affirm humanitys oneness and endorse an annual Global Oneness Day.

I believe that unless we have that sense of solidarity among the peoples of the world, all our efforts of peace and security will go nowhere, said Chowdhury, a former undersecretary-general and high representative of the United Nations.

A sampling of scheduled Global Oneness Day events, to date, includes:

Thousands in 25 Countries to Celebrate 1st Global Oneness Day Oct. 24; Tutu, Ono, Chopra, Beckwith, Keating Among Supporters