transport: Impact of the Eras Tour

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Publications have analyzed the cultural, economic and sociopolitical influence of the Eras Tour, the 2023–2024 concert tour by the American musician Taylor Swift and the highest-grossing tour of all time. Driven by a fan frenzy called Swiftmania, the tour's impact is considered an outcome of Swift's wider influence on the 21st-century popular culture. Concert industry publication Pollstar called the tour "The Greatest Show on Earth". The Eras Tour, as Swift's first tour after the COVID-19 lockdowns, led an economic demand shock fueled by increased public affinity for entertainment. It recorded unprecedented ticket sale registrations across the globe, including a virtual queue of over 22 mil…

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The Eras Tour was the sixth concert tour by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It began in Glendale, Arizona, United States, on March 17, 2023, and concluded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on December 8, 2024. Spanning 149 shows in 51 cities across 21 countries and five continents, the Eras Tour had a large cultural and socioeconomic impact. It became the highest-grossing tour of all time and the first to earn over $1 billion and $2 billion in revenue. Announced after the release of her tenth studio album Midnights (2022), Swift designed the tour as a retrospective tribute to all of her albums and their corresponding musical "eras". Running over 3.5 hours, the set list co…

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Figure 3.10. The total number of refugee stock (including asylum seekers) declined in Asia/Pacific though OECD countries recorded an unprecedented number of 7.3 million

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Will Ticket Scalpers Meet the Same Fate as Spinal Tap Drummers? The Sale and Resale of Concert and Sports Tickets. When a concert or sporting event sells out, the performer appears popular and the venue enjoys the opportunity to maximize profits from the sale of parking, merchandise, food, and beverages. For these and other reasons, event sponsors often underprice tickets. This underpricing creates commercial opportunities for ticket resellers, who purchase in bulk at the lower price and resell the tickets at a profit, and also for intermediaries such as StubHub. Legal and technological efforts to squelch ticket resales have largely failed, leaving the secondary ticket market stronger than…

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Céline Marie Claudette Dion (born 30 March 1968) is a Canadian singer, entrepreneur and philanthropist. Dubbed the "Queen of Power Ballads", she is known for her impact on popular music through powerful, technically skilled vocals and commercially successful works. With over 200 million records sold worldwide, Dion is the best-selling Canadian recording artist, the best-selling French-language artist, and one of the best-selling musical artists of all time. Born into a large family in Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion was discovered by her future manager and husband, René Angélil, and emerged as a teen star in her home country with eight French-language albums during the 1980s. She gained internati…

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The Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour is the seventh concert tour by the Colombian singer Shakira. The stadium tour commenced on 11 February 2025 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is scheduled to conclude on 28 November 2026 in Giza, Egypt. It was first announced in 2021 but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and was re-announced in 2024, in support of her twelfth studio album, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (2024). The tour has broken numerous ticket sales and venue records while also leaving a significant cultural impact. As of January 2026, it has earned over US$421.6 million within its first 86 concerts, breaking the Guinness World Record for the highest-grossing Latin tour of all time,…

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Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour is a 2023 American concert film produced by the singer-songwriter Taylor Swift and directed by Sam Wrench. It documents the Los Angeles shows of the Eras Tour (2023–2024), Swift's sixth headlining concert tour and the highest-grossing tour of all time. Swift struck an unprecedented distribution agreement with AMC Theatres and Cinemark Theatres for the film after negotiations with the major film studios fell through. Filming took place in August 2023 across three shows at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, with a budget of $10–20 million and SAG-AFTRA permitting production to proceed amidst its 2023 strike. Swift announced the film later that month, catching s…

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Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA; IATA: KUL, ICAO: WMKK) is the main international airport of Malaysia. Despite its name, it is not located within Kuala Lumpur, but rather in the Sepang District of Selangor, approximately 45 km (28 mi) south of the city, serving its greater conurbation. KLIA is the largest and busiest airport in the country and a regional megahub for low-cost carriers in Asia-Pacific. In 2025, it handled 63.3 million passengers, ranking as the 20th-busiest airport by total passenger traffic. AirAsia is the dominant air carrier in Malaysia, based in KLIA Terminal 2 and serving 14,583 low-cost connections, with a 35% share of flights, followed by Malaysia Airlines. Th…

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We’ve mapped a million previously undiscovered galaxies beyond the Milky Way. Take the virtual tour here.

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Virtual exoplanet tour hits a million viewers

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The Singapore Government’s Efforts in International Tourism Development through the Eras Tour

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Swiftonomics: what we can learn from Singapore multiplying millions from Taylor Swift’s Eras tour