Puerto Vallarta Announces Dates for "Pride Vallarta 2013"

NEW YORK - April 11, 2013 - PRLog -- Puerto Vallarta’s annual LGBT event "Vallarta Pride" will take place this year on the weekend of May 24th, 2013. Events will start with a cocktail kick-off at Puerto Vallarta’s Casa Cupula Hotel Boutique and continue for three days, celebrating LGBT culture and Puerto Vallarta’s welcoming community with music festivals, beach parties, fashion shows, mass commitment ceremony and activities in participating bars and clubs.

A member of the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association, Puerto Vallarta has been a preferred LGBT friendly destination in the Americas for over 60 years and has an infrastructure that is frequently included on leading media as gay friendly destination lists, including TripAdvisor, Lonely Planet, Out Traveler, Passport Magazine, gay.com and is the only Mexican destination on the Huffington Post Gay Voice’s Top 10 LGBT Honeymoon Destinations.

Puerto Vallarta offers an LGBT inclusive atmosphere in is Romantic Zone area which is home to many businesses that are LGBT-owned and/or target the consumer, including beaches, tours, activities and restaurants bars and clubs to choose from. LGBT travelers have the option of choosing from gay friendly resorts, hotels, lodges, bed and breakfasts and guest houses.

The City's Tourism Department at City Hall, led by Director Carlos Gerard and Sub-Director Enrique Tovar, aims to increase tourism to the city. The 3-day event was created to celebrate the unique and all-inclusive culture that has flourished in Puerto Vallarta, successfully integrating the rich traditions of the Mexican culture with the varied ideas that have been introduced to the local community from its large expatriate community from all corners of the world including the US and Canada, and as far afield as Asia, Russia and Europe. The LGBT community is just one of the many communities that thrives in Vallarta organizers explained.

Confirmed events for Vallarta Pride 2013

• Opening Reception Vallarta Pride 2013

Friday May 24, 2013 at 9:00 pm

Taste Restaurant at Casa Cupula (http://www.casacupula.com/)

• Commitment Ceremony

Saturday May 25, 2013 at 11:00 am

Lido - Beach Club (http://www.trattoria.com.mx/lido_index.html)

• Vallarta Pride Fashion Show

Saturday May 25, 2013 at 2:00 pm

Blue Chairs Beach Club (http://www.bluechairsresort.com/site/blue-chairs-restaura...)

• "HEAT" – Tea Dance

Saturday May 25, 2013 from 4:00 pm

Lido / Blue Chairs (http://www.bluechairsresort.com/site/blue-chairs-restaurant-bar.html)

• Vallarta Pride 2013 @Night

Themed Nights at participating bars/lounges/clubs

Saturday May 25, 2013 at 8:00 pm

• Vallarta Pride Parade 2013

Sunday May 26, 2013 from 4:00 pm

Romantic Zone

• Vallarta Pride Festival 2013

Sunday May 26, 2013 from 5:00 pm

Lazaro Cardenas Park / Romantic Zone

For more information visit media partner www.gaypv.mx or the official Puerto Vallarta website www.visitpuertovallarta.com

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Additional information on Puerto Vallarta is available at www.visitpuertovallarta.com.