It’s nice to have your work recognized. Even nicer when it’s unsolicited. That’s why the Chamber and our travel marketing partners the Dallas Tavern Guild and the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau were so thrilled when the NGLCC – America’s LGBT Chamber of Commerce featured Dallas as a “Hot” destination for LGBT travelers. The Dallas [...]

Last month I was driving home from our monthly Business Connections mixer in Fort Worth. As I tooled down I-30 recalling the people that I had met and the really, really good food a thought popped into my head. Oh my god, I like Fort Worth. No, I love Fort Worth! There, I’ve admitted it. [...]

Airlines, banks and the GLBT community; one of these things is not like the other.

Last week’s Dallas Morning News had no less than three notable aviation articles. On Wednesday there was a report on Southwest Airlines’ $54 million second quarter profits, although chairman and chief executive Gary Kelly warned that he could not predict third-quarter profits. On Thursday another article noted lower debt ratings for American Airlines and Southwest Airlines.

I just returned from the US Chamber Institute in Los Angeles. There was so much good information that it will take me weeks if not longer to sort through it all. So today, I’d like to reflect on what can only be described as five days in paradise, and it’s not LA. I know that we tend to throw ‘fabulous’ around for little or no reason sometimes, but in the case of Puerto Vallarta fabulous (or fabuloso) is an understatement.

Trust me the remainder of this piece is not going to be ‘what I did on my summer vacation’.