A Taiwanese travel company is marketing trips to southern Alberta, where the award-winning movie Brokeback Mountain was filmed.And Lion Travel Service is offering $200 discounts to gay couples who want to take the tour.
"We're marketing this package especially to gay and lesbian people mainly," said company spokeswoman Linda Chow.
Gordon MacIvor, the economic development officer for the town of Fort Macleod, where much of the gay love story was filmed, said not every one in the town is excited about it becoming a destination for gay travellers. But he said any visitors to the town will be welcomed and not judged.
"We are in a modern society today, so there have been a lot of movies out on controversial issues and it's your own personal judgment on it," MacIvor told CBC Radio.
Don Boynton of Travel Alberta says his website also suggests a site-seeing tour of the film's locations. But he says the tour isn't only for gay people.
"The movie and the scenery is appealing to all people no matter what their lifestyle is," he said.
Brokeback Mountain won Oscars for best director, best adapted screenplay and best original score. The move was set in Wyoming, but filmed in the area of Fort Macleod and Pincher Creek area.
from CBC News
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