Nigeria has again been rated the most dangerous place on the globe for LGBTQ travel, while South Africa drops six places. Nigeria, one of the continent’s powerhouse economies, scored the worst out of 150 nations when it comes to queer tourism in the latest LGBTQ+ Travel Safety Index.
The index was recently updated by American researchers and couple, Asher and Lyric Fergusson after they spent more than 250 hours on research. “We looked at the top 150 most-visited countries in the world, by number of incoming tourists, and then carefully examined LGBTQ+ rights for each country,” they said.
The latest ranking is based on various factors: legalisation of same-sex marriage; LGBTQ+ worker protections; protections against discrimination;