Connect with us

CELEBRITIES

Breaking News: Taylor Swift’s Private Jet Landed in Nashville Less Than 2 Days Before Her Eras Tour in Sweden.

Published

on

Taylor Swift fans who missed out on her U.S. concert tour last year or didn’t want to buy exorbitantly priced tickets to see her again found an out-of-the-way solution: Fly to Europe.

The pop star is scheduled to kick off the 18-city Europe leg of her record-setting Eras Tour in Paris on Thursday, and planeloads of Swifties plan to follow Miss Americana across the pond in the coming weeks. The arena where Swift is appearing said Americans bought 20% of the tickets for her four sold-out shows. Stockholm, the tour’s next stop, expects about 10,000 concertgoers from the U.S.

A concert might sound like an odd raison d’etre for visiting a foreign country, especially when fans can watch the Eras Tour from home via the documentary now streaming on Disney+. Yet online travel company Expedia says continent-hopping by Swift’s devotees is part of a larger trend it dubbed “tour tourism” while observing a pattern that emerged during Beyoncé’s Renaissance world tour.

Some North American fans who plan to fly overseas for the Eras Tour said they justified the expense after noticing that tighter restrictions on ticket fees and resales in Europe made seeing Swift perform abroad no more costly — and potentially cheaper — than catching her closer to home.

“They said, ‘Wait a minute, I can either spend $1,500 to go see my favorite artist in Miami, or I can take that $1,500 and buy a concert ticket, a round-trip plane ticket, and three nights in a hotel room,” Melanie Fish, an Expedia spokesperson and travel expert, said.

That was the experience of Jennifer Warren, 43, who lives in St. Catharines, a city in the Niagara region of Ontario. She and her 11-year-old son love Swift but had no luck scoring what she considered as decently priced tickets in the U.S. Undeterred, Warren and her husband decided to plan a European vacation around wherever she managed to get seats. It turned out to be Hamburg, Germany.

“You get out, you get to see the world, and you get to see your favorite artist or performer at the same time, so there are a lot of wins to it,” said Warren, who works as the director of research and innovation for a mutual insurance company.

The three VIP tickets she secured close to the stage — “I would call it brute-force dumb luck” — cost 600 euros ($646) each. Swift subsequently announced six November tour dates in Toronto, within driving distance of Warren’s home. “Absolute nose-bleed seats” already are going for 3,000 Canadian dollars ($2,194) on secondary resale sites like Viagogo, Warren said.

Click to comment

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

CELEBRITIES1 day ago

Breaking News: Fed-Up Robert De Niro Books Tickets to Leave America with His Family After NYC Outburst — ‘No Respect for Me Anymore, and This Massive Red Wave Is Not…’more 👇👇

CELEBRITIES1 day ago

Breaking: Tom Hanks has Booked Tickets to Leave USA to… ”A massive red wave is coming, and I can’t be here because…” See more

CELEBRITIES3 days ago

Elon Musk Files A $70 Million Lawsuit Against Whoopi Goldberg And ‘The View’, Claims “They Are Lying About Me” Read full

Gist5 days ago

BREAKING: Chiefs are reportedly ‘preparing’ to lose $100m superstar Trey Smith in free agency

CELEBRITIES5 days ago

Whoopi Goldberg admits she’s struggling and having a hard time like many americans Because of see details here

Gist5 days ago

Patrick Mahomes opens up after his and Travis Kelce’s mansions were burglarized: ‘It’s frustrating’

CELEBRITIES5 days ago

Giants $12 million reliable starter predicted to dump New York in favor of Chiefs

CELEBRITIES6 days ago

BREAKING: Chiefs urged to reunite with three-time Pro Bowler Marcus Peters mid-season to address ‘biggest weakness’ More details here

CELEBRITIES6 days ago

Gigi Hadid and Bradley Cooper match in red for stroll in New York City Details here

CELEBRITIES7 days ago

Whoopi Goldberg still refuses to say Donald Trump’s name despite his historic election victory

NEWS7 days ago

JIMMY KIMMEL RESPONDS TO ELON MUSK CALLING HIM A ‘PROPAGANDA PUPPET’

CELEBRITIES7 days ago

Jimmy Kimmel Announced He Is Canceling His Show After Trump’s Inauguration?

Copyright © 2024 USAglobe24