By Philip Sheldon CEO Why I’m Passionate about Spanish Treasures! Our new Spanish Treasures gay tour has literally been in the making for decades. One of my favorite hobbies as a boy was to put together puzzles, and one of my favorites was of a Spanish town that was perched on top of a cliff. […]
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Gay Hawaii Tour: Rainforests and Rainbows (Part 2)
I love Hawaii Part 2 By Zachary Moses This is part 2, to read Part 1 Click Here! Day 4 (continued): Sunset Cruise After checking in to the Hilton Waikaloa resort this afternoon, I rode the tram all the way to my hotel at the far end of the property. It took about 20 minutes. […]
Zach’s Account of Splash Grand Canyon Rafting (Part 1)
HE Travel has been rafting the Grand Canyon for 40 years. In fact, the first gay tour ever offered was a Grand Canyon rafting trip that our founder Hanns Ebensten organized in 1973. We are currently the only gay tour operator running annual trips down the Canyon, and we run about 5 all-gay boats each […]
Gay Travel in Barbados Tour?
In May I attended a familiarization (FAM) tour of Barbados, along with a dozen other winners of the 2012 “30 under 30 Top Travel Professionals” award from Travel Agent Magazine. The host’s goal for a FAM trip is to showcase their destination to travel pros that have the highest likelihood of selling their clients a […]
Mount Athos & Phil’s Millennial Momoment
2013 marks the 40th anniversary of HE Travel. As we’ve been reflecting what this means for us as a company, we’ve been looking back to other milestones in our company’s long history. While looking through our archives, we came across this “Millennial Moment” article written by our CEO Philip Sheldon as we approached the Millennium […]
Amazon Woman: Adventure in the Jungle of Peru (Part 3)
This is Part 3 in a series. Click to read Part 1 and Part 2. Day 4: Birding, Fishing, Hiking, and Daring each other to eat things we found in the Amazon Rainforest We met at 4am and went down to the dock for a birding expedition. The morning was misty and cool and the […]






