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WorldPride held in Vancouver over the city’s usual pride period - starting in late July and ending in early August, coinciding with the BC Day long weekend - would also greatly benefit from the synergies of the city’s other peak summer events and activities, such as the Celebration of Light, in providing offerings to visitors.Īs a major cruise ship homeport, there could even be synergies with the cruise industry in providing sailings that cater to the LGBTQ community and end in Vancouver during the WorldPride period. The rest was covered by major corporate sponsors and donors.Īccording to organizers at the time, WorldPride in Toronto attracted almost two million visitors over its 10-day run, and generated hundreds of millions of dollars in direct and indirect local economic spinoffs, far exceeding a typical pride season. To host the expanded programming meeting WorldPride calibre, Pride Toronto’s budget more than doubled from the previous year to about $4.5 million, with the City of Toronto providing organizers with a one-time public funding increase of $280,000. Vancouver Pride Parade on Beach Avenue, 2018. It’d be a great LGBTQ uplift and tourism boost. It’s a huge pride festival held every few years in a new global city, essentially super-sizing the local festival that already happens in the city. Here’s an idea… #Vancouver should bid to host #WorldPride in 2025. “You need a longer term growth… World Pride would involve having the City of Vancouver more involved, and probably the provincial government, Tourism Vancouver, and Vancouver Hotel Destination Association. In an interview, Andrea Arnot, executive director of the Vancouver Pride Society (VPS), told Daily Hive a Vancouver bid to host WorldPride is likely still 10 to 15 years away, partially because of the level of competition to host the remaining yet-to-be awarded years later this decade.īut more importantly, Vancouver Pride needs to ramp up its programming and festivities in order to have a solid chance of winning a bid. To host WorldPride, local pride societies submit a bid to InterPride, the international organization comprised of members of pride festival organizers around the world, for the rights to host the event.
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Vancouver as the host would become the “must-visit” gay tourism destination of the year, attracting hundreds of thousands of members of the LGBTQ community from all over the globe. The host city for WorldPride is transformed into an electric village celebrating the LGBTQ community, its annual Pride Parade is super-sized, and it becomes the beacon of the global pride festival calendar. WorldPride is a globe-trotting pride festival, held in a different city for a pride season and organized by the local pride society - supplanting and significantly expanding the host city’s usual pride events, festivities, and programming, and adding a human rights conference. Vancouver Pride organizers are aiming high with their goal of hosting the world’s largest pride festival, but the rainbow road to get there will be a long one.