Following this, pressure group Stonewall urged tour operators to take "more responsibility" for helping the LGBT community get the best out of their holidays and travel safely.
Martha Burk, chairwoman of the National Council of Women's Organizations, urged the Tour on Monday not to recognize the Masters as a major anymore.
Last Sunday morning in Paris thousands gathered, along with a worldwide TV audience, to watch La Course, a creative response by the Tour de France organisers to the urging of Le Tour Entier, a pressure group assembled to improve the status of women's road racing.
As a largely student crowd of about 100 gathered, one of the bus passengers, Shauna Farabaugh, 23, announced what was coming: a presentation by a Catholic organization on a cross-country tour urging that military spending be reduced and that the money saved go to health care and education.
A letter from 1959 supports her story: Armstrong writes of how much he misses Ms. Preston and sends the route for his tour, urging her to join him.
The former Swedish finance minister has made a whistle-stop tour urging other countries to adopt a plan similar to the one credited with saving the Swedish financial system after their banking crisis in the early 1990s.
The Kauai Visitors Bureau is also urging hotel concierges and tour operators to steer people away from the area.
Khary Lazarre-White, executive director of a Harlem program for young people called the Brotherhood/Sister Sol, urged a grand tour of neighborhoods, including a full day at a public housing project.
Without his moderating influence, she later said, she was pushed harder and harder by her teachers, who urged her to tour heavily and tackle difficult repertory that was beyond her emotional ken — a set of pressures that devolves on many child prodigies.
