A puzzle I'd like to put to the international travelling community. Not an LGBT question, it is the straights I'd like to pitch for opinions.

If a travel agent booked you into a hotel and you arrived to find it adorned with gay rainbow flags, would you presume it were a gay-friendly hotel or a specifically gay hotel?

We are travel agents and don't care one bit what colour you are or whether you get your kicks from guys, gals or frozen vegetables. We think everywhere should be gay friendly (and in our experience all places that we do business with are indeed gay friendly). It is not our business to judge you, we just want your money off you.

However a number of hotels (in Bogotá mainly) have begun to follow a trend of wearing their gay friendly credentials on their sleeves by hanging giant gay rainbows outside their hotel. So I wrote to one and asked for an explanation.

The reply was "Most of our customers are European and North American and recognise that the rainbow flags at our hotel identify us as an establishment that has a gay-friendly policy, the flags act as a magnet for international tourists"

Do they really? I am a European, my business partner is European and two of our guides are American. We all think it looks like an exclusively gay hotel, like I just touched down in Chueca.

So the question, if you as a heterosexual FTer were booked by an agent into a hotel adorned with rainbows, would your first impression be that it was an exclusively gay place? Would you expect your travel agent to send you an email explaining the curious manifestation of the hotel's gay friendly policy beforehand?