{"id":364,"date":"2007-06-19T10:07:05","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T10:07:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-06-19T10:07:05","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T10:07:05","slug":"toronto-tourism-as-gay-as-it-gets-the-canadian-homo-hotspot-attempts-to-attract-us-with-a-targeted-ad-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2007\/06\/toronto-tourism-as-gay-as-it-gets-the-canadian-homo-hotspot-attempts-to-attract-us-with-a-targeted-ad-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Tourism: &#8220;As Gay As It Gets&#8221;.  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And gay men spend an average of $800 on a trip (compared with $540 by non-gay travellers).<\/p>\n<p>The $300,000 ad campaign will target gays travellers in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the message behind a new Tourism Toronto campaign marketing the city as one of the world&#8217;s top destinations for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[548,451,549,282,227,491],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Toronto Tourism: &quot;As Gay As It Gets&quot;. 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