Richard Florida, considered by some as the guru of urban economic development, was recently welcomed to the University of Toronto's business school.
He's started a $120-million project at the University to research how wealth is created in urban settings.
That's the message behind a new Tourism Toronto campaign marketing the city as one of the world's top destinations for gays and lesbians.
As any marketer knows, gays are "high-value" travellers. Worldwide, the gay travel market is a $55-billion industry.