3 New Apps Reimagine the User Experience for Event, LGBT and Cultural Travel
Photo Credit: The "Sequence" sculpture inside the new San Francisco Museum of Modern Art expansion. SFMOMA
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In a world with so many travel apps of suspect value and necessity, these three platforms deliver real improvements for users in each of the three travel categories.
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 c
