The Evolution of Mykonos Island as an LGBTQ Destination Through Time. Fostering Change Management Attitude for the Future Development of LGBTQ Tourism in Mykonos

Konstantinos Skagias, Dimitrios Belias and Angelos Ntalakos ()
Additional contact information
Konstantinos Skagias: Ambassador HACC.NY Mykonos Based for Aegean Islands
Dimitrios Belias: University of Thessaly
Angelos Ntalakos: University of Thessaly

A chapter in Innovation and Creativity in Tourism, Business and Social Sciences, 2025, pp 987-1006 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The famous Greek island of Mykonos is widely considered an open-minded destination that shows no discrimination to any visitor, regardless of ethnicity, religion, origin, or sexual orientation. Mykonos was put on the tourist map in the mid-late ‘60 s. Although Greek society was very conservative during this period, Mykonos Island, with its inhabitants, carved out a new, innovative, and revolutionary path, highlighting Mykonos as a friendly destination for the gay community. This paper aims to investigate how Mykonos Island has evolved as an LGBTQ destination over the past decades. In addition, this paper will examine the benefits of LGBTQ tourism on local communities and the changes managers have to implement for the future development of LGBTQ tourism in Mykonos Island. Which infrastructures, services, regulations, and laws have been developed to create Mykonos’ brand as one of the most gay-friendly travel destinations in the entire world? This is only one of the research questions that the authors aspire to answer.

Keywords: Mykonos Island; Gay tourism; LGBTQ community; Literature review; Tourism industry; Change attitude (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L83 M10 M12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-031-78471-2_43

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783031784712

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-78471-2_43

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().