When Richard Gray, talks about LGBT+ tourism, people in the industry tend to sit up and listen.
His appointment as Vice President of the LGBT+ division of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Vistors Bureau (CVB) in 2012 was an industry first and six years on Fort Lauderdale has firmly established itself as the trail blazing holiday destination for LGBT+ tourists from all over the world, boosting the local economy every year to the tune of $1.5 billion.