Asia's Gay Travel Pioneers Purple Dragon is Asia's oldest, largest gay tour operator. More than 25% of our customers have traveled with us two or more times.
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For fifteen years we have offered all-inclusive travel programs with private guides in nine (soon ten) countries in Asia: Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Singapore, China, India and Bhutan. We offer imaginative, culturally-focused itineraries for first-time visitors and those who have traveled to Asia many times. (The current record-holders have traveled with Purple Dragon 16 times so far.)
We thought you might like to know about Douglas' August 2020 blog. He finds his way back to Phare the Cambodian Circus, gives an update about his "Staycation," tells about the prospects for travel in Southeast Asia and Bhutan, and reminds everyone that Jerry Falwell is still dead. It's great reading:
https://www.douglas-thompson.com/blog/28August2020.htm
In case you missed it, Douglas' November 30th blog is, as always, a terrifc read: www.douglas-thompson.com/blog/30Nov19.htm
Blog contents: The 40th anniversary of my death, A Lesson From Jonestown,j8 About Purple Dragon, Siem Reap to Pakse by road
Douglas has blogged (again!)
This there is news about Purple Dragon, among other things. If you have not followed his long-running blog, you can see them all here: http://www.douglas-thompson.com/blog/index.htm
Douglas Thompson, LGBTQ travel guru, rants, raves, shares opinions and beauty secrets from gay Asia
Helping Douglas with our latest venture.
Southern Laos is full of wide open spaces, spectacular views, coffee plantations, thousands of "islands" in the Mekong River, and even an outpost of the Khmer Empire that built Angkor Wat. What you will not see is hoards of tourists. Spend two nights cruising the Southern Mekong, then explore Bolaven Plateau, for some of the world's best coffee, waterfalls, and elephants.
You are among the first to be told about our December newsletter. I hope you think it is a great one. Douglas asked me to write about "gaywashing." Some people are not going to be very happy about what I wrote. We have a new country manager in Myanmar. Anderson Cooper called him the "best guide in Myanmar." And Surajgarh, a living museum. Read it all here: https://www.clubsanook.com/newsletters/December18/
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December newsletter from Asia's gay travel pioneers includes gaywashing in tourism, what makes a gay tour gay, Tom loved Myanar, Anderson Cooper called our new manager the best guide in Myanmar, our all-new Sapa tour, and this month's forgotten destinations is India's Surajgarh and her painted havel...
Do you have a travel bucket list? If Bhutan is on your list we just made it at least 10% easier to scratch off!
Overnight between Chiang Rai (or Chiang Khong) and Luang Prabang or vice versa. Enjoy spectacular scenery and life along the river. Visit a landlocked village. Three nights or more in Luang Prabang (where we have a good selection of hotels). Discount applies to everything, including any arrangements you want in Chiang Rai/Golden Triangle. You will never see prices like this again.
Please share this. Traveling with friends is more fun.
Chiang Rai/Chiang Khong to Luang Prabang or Southern Mekong and Bolaven Plateau. This kind of bargain does not come along often.
For just a few days you can save big $$$ on everything from tours to facelifts. Pink Friday is way more fun than Black Friday, and worldwide shipping is free! https://www.purpledrag.com/pinkfriday.htm
Dreaming of traveling through Asia? This sale happens only once a year. You can save $$$ on everything from Bhutan tours to face lifts: https://www.purpledrag.com/pinkfriday.htm
Happy weekend! Club Sanook's October newsletter is hot off the press (well, a virtual press, that is). We update you about same s*x marriage in Asia, enjoy some postcards from Myanmar, explore an "undiscovered" island you'll want to avoid, look at 20th anniversary goodies for Members, learn about Daniel's career reboot, travel through Southern Laos, and a bunch of other stuff. Read it online now: https://www.clubsanook.com/newsletters/Oct-18/index.htm
Enjoy and share!
October 2018 newsletter from Club Sanook, the private travel club of Purple Dragon Ltd., Asia's gay travel pioneers
You can get a discount of up to 17% on Purple Dragon tours if you vote in the November midterm election. (Sorry, US voters only). Please share this!
https://www.purpledrag.com/vote.htm
Do you have a Purple Dragon experience you'd like to share? We've added a page on our website where you can do that: https://www.purpledrag.com/fanmail.htm
If you are skeptical about using a company like Purple Dragon that offers a whole experience (booking a hotel room online is not an experience), we hope you will read a story just published in an Asian trade magazine about "industrialized" travel that has created figure-it-out-yourself travelers. Call us old-fashioned, but it is this is the opposite of what we do. With us, there is nothing to figure out. All you have to do is arrive. It has all been "figured out" for you already so you can spend your time enjoying a truly rewarding experience.
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2018/08/tour-guides-next-in-the-firing-line/
OPINIONTour guides next in the firing line By Don Ross - August 30, 2018 0 Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter CHIANG RAI, 30 August 2018: Today’s watchword is ‘overtourism’ a newcomer to the tourism dictionary, but it is trending and gaining considerable traction. The ‘overtourism’ blight ...
We have just published our 20th Anniversary Newsletter. Miss Fu outdid herself!
https://www.clubsanook.com/newsletters/August2018/
Our CEO's blog is always good reading. This time he tells us why he hasn't blogged for a while, how to get rich selling gay travel, why he's tired of people fu***ng up his planet and why he dumped Bhutan Boy. Read about it here:
http://www.douglas-thompson.com/blog/13August2018.htm
Douglas Thompson explains why he has not blogged, how he is tired of companies that want to make a quick buck on gay tavel, how earth is becoming uninhabitable, and why he dumped Bhutan Boy
TA DA! Our April newsletter is hot off the press for your reading pleasure: www.clubsanook.com/newsletters/April-18/
Douglas Thompson, CEO of multi-nation tour operator Purple Dragon is a welcome addition to our 'People of PROUD'. Douglas will be hosting 'Somewhere over the rainbow'. A masterclass focused on evolving the LGBTQ+ market in the world's largest and most diverse continent.
Although China is home to the world's third-largest "pink market", is Asia really open for business?
Douglas Thompson, CEO of multi-nation tour operator Purple Dragon is a welcome addition to our 'People of PROUD'. Douglas will be hosting 'Somewhere over the rainbow'. A masterclass focused on evolving the LGBTQ+ market in the world's largest and most diverse continent.
We are proud to let you know that we have published our August newsletter. Too many great stories to mention them all, but you will want to take your time reading them: http://www.clubsanook.com/newsletters/Aug-2017/index.htm
Good on you! Great story in QX Magazine! http://www.qxmagazine.com/2017/07/orchids-oriental-exploration/
Meet Douglas Thompson, who crafts bespoke holidays for LGBT travellers Douglas Thompson has had the sort of sprawling, eclectic life normally seen in a Wes Anderson film. He trained to be a pilot as a teenager, raised tens of thousands of dollars for HIV/AIDS organisations at the height of the US ep...
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