LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce & Tourism Ecuador is a private, non-profit corporation born in 2016 from the initiative of several merchants, supported by civil society organizations that saw the need to focus the LGBT sector on entrepreneurship, micro, small, medium and large companies. In that first year, we maintained our first contact with the NGLCC.

We are founded in July of 2018 to promote and consolidate financial markets where sexually diverse populations and allied people participate. On August 23, 2018, we acquired our legal status as a Chamber, before the Ministry Ecuador of Industries. In this sense, we have sought the collaboration and proactivity of our members to improve the quality of life of the LGBT sector in the country and promote the generation of foreign currency in the business, industrial, commercial, and tourism sectors of LGBT populations. As part of its growth, the chamber launched the Pride Connection Ecuador initiative in September 2019 which begins a path with respect to the first inclusive human resources network in the Andean country. In tourism, as a member of the IGLTA, the Chamber launched in May 2021 the Proud Destinations initiative, whose purpose is to identify friendly places for the LGBTIQ+ tourist population in the country.