According to the Spartacus Gay Travel Index for 2019, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and the US rank 47th out of 197 on the list of most friendly countries for LGBTI tourists.

The Berlin-based Spartacus International Gay Guide, which provides tips for gay travellers, published its annual LGBTI guide for 197 countries around the world, analysing antidiscrimination laws, marriage and civil partnership laws, adoption laws, transgender rights, and persecution or death penalty.

The first place was shared by Sweden and Canada, unchanged from last year. The two were in 2019 also joined by Portugal, which jumped from the 27th place it occupied in 2018.

The fourth place on the 2019 list is shared by 13 countries, almost all of them European – Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and the French overseas island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean.

In 2018, both Croatia and Bosnia ranked 45th, while the United States ranked 39th.

Out of other countries in the region, Slovenia ranked best, 28th, while Serbia, Montenegro, and Kosovo all shared the 68th place. Hungary ranked 57th.

The bottom of the list is occupied by Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Iran, while the least friendly country on the 2019 list is Chechnya, where gay people can face death penalty for homosexuality, the guide said.

The entire Index can be downloaded here.

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