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title: "Calling all Diners! - IVU - International Vegetarian Union"
description: "Calling all Diners!: from IVU News 2002 VegDining.com VegDining's Guide to Vegetarian Travel In time for summer travle season, we're pleased to announce our new section on Vegetarian Travel, featuring short travelogues, travel tips, accommodation, upcoming trips, links and more. We'll continuously"
url: "https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/biographies/5490-news-2002-diners.html"
date: "2026-11-06T02:04:45+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
---

#  Calling all Diners!

![Calling all Diners!](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/banners/news-2002-diners.png)**Calling all Diners!** *from IVU News 2002*

 ***VegDining.com***

***VegDining's Guide to Vegetarian Travel***

In time for summer travle season, we're pleased to announce our new section on Vegetarian Travel, featuring short travelogues, travel tips, accommodation, upcoming trips, links and more.

We'll continuously be adding to this section, so please drop us a line with any veg travel tidbits you have.

You can visit our new travel section at: [**www.VegDining.com**](http://www.vegdining.com/)

P.S. Don't forget to visit our site and tell us about recent visits to your favourite vegetarian restaurants too!

Since the fall of 1999, VegDining.com has been an active member of the vegetarian community, helping to advance global vegetarianism by promoting vegetarian restaurants around the world. VegDining was launched realizing that the widespread acceptance of vegetarianism relied not only on the tireless work of vegetarian activists but also on the success of vegetarian restaurants in the marketplace.

In the process, VegDining has taken great pride in actively supporting many nonprofit vegetarian groups, from the smallest of grassroots local groups to the largest, most well-known international organizations.

Through its weekly, monthly and grand prize draws, paid advertisements in group newsletters, event sponsorships, prize donations and free public service ads on its website, VegDining was and continues to be a proud supporter of vegetarian groups around the world.

VegDining.com is now at a crossroads and needs more than ever the support of its vegetarian friends. With the dramatic downturn in the web economy, VegDining like many other websites can no longer depend on online advertis-ing - particularly vegetarian-only online advertising - to pay its bills. For it to continue, VegDining relies on purchases of its VegDining Card, the interna-tional vegetarian dining discount card. As well, it depends on the continued support of vegetarians through submissions of reviews and updated informa-tion about vegetarian restaurants.

To all of you who have supported VegDining either through purchases of VegDining Cards, submissions of reviews, or by telling your friends about us, we sincerely thank you. To others, please consider supporting our work in any of the ways described. Through your support, VegDining will be able to con-tinue its work promoting vegetarianism around the world.

*- Dennis Bayomi
 President and Founder, [VegDining.com](http://www.vegdining.com/)*

A note on this archive. The history section of this website is drawn from a body of legacy content originally compiled by John Davis, former manager of the International Vegetarian Union. It represents his curation of historical material, and in places includes passages written by him directly.

Over the years, the IVU website has migrated between several different hosting servers. In the course of these migrations, a number of PDF files were unfortunately lost, and **some links to PDF documents may no longer function**. Where this is the case, we have chosen to leave the original link text in place, as it may itself carry information of historical value.

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