Toronto hotels, shops and restaurants have transformed their businesses to welcome the fans of superstar Taylor Swift. Hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected to descend on the city for six concert dates.

The singer-songwriter thanked the fans packed inside the Rogers Centre while acknowledging her six Grammy nominations.

When Taylor Swift comes to town, local economies spring to life as hotels fill up, public transit heaves and traffic grinds to a halt, sometimes on streets recently renamed in her honor.