LONDON, Aug 22 — Taylor Swift’s “Eras” tour wraps up its European leg in London on Tuesday, after the American megastar wowed hundreds of thousands of fans across a dozen countries. “I wish I could have toured Europe more. This is a dream crowd,” the 34-year-old singer told fans at Paris’s La Defence Arena, where she kicked off the run of shows in May.
Four months later, here are five takeaways from Swift’s time in Europe, as she goes out in “Style” in front of a 90,000-strong crowd at the British capital’s Wembley Stadium. ‘Swiftonomics’ From “Swiftflation” to economic boosts, European cities saw hotel prices soar as fans descended from around the world. Heeding Swift’s song lyric “grab your passport and my hand”, 120,000 Swifties travelled from 130 countries to Stockholm in May, where they were expected to spend half a billion Swedish kronor (RM201 million), according to the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce.
Hotel rooms also saw a price spike of “approximately 295 per cent”, the chamber’s chief economist Carl Bergkvist told AFP, with some economists fearing the Swift craze could send Swedish consumer prices rising again. Two concerts in Madrid are estimated to have injected €25 million (RM120 million) into the Spanish capital’s economy. And the tour was forecasted to boost the UK economy by almost £1 billion (RM5.
6 billion), Barclays bank said in a study titled “Swiftonomics”. Shake it off Seismologists across the continent re.