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Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cEras\u201d tour wraps up its European leg in London on Tuesday, after the American megastar wowed hundreds of thousands of fans across a dozen countries.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish I could have toured Europe more. This is a dream crowd,\u201d the 34-year-old singer told fans at Paris\u2019s La Defense Arena, where she kicked off the run of shows in May.<\/p>\n
Four months later, here are five takeaways from Swift\u2019s time in Europe, as she goes out in \u201cStyle\u201d in front of a 90,000-strong crowd at the British capital\u2019s Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n
From \u201cSwiftflation\u201d to economic boosts, European cities saw hotel prices soar as fans descended from around the world.<\/p>\n
Heeding Swift\u2019s song lyric \u201cgrab your passport and my hand\u201d, 120,000 Swifties travelled from 130 countries to Stockholm in May, where they were expected to spend half a billion Swedish kronor ($46 million), according to the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n
Hotel rooms also saw a price spike of \u201capproximately 295 percent\u201d, the chamber\u2019s chief economist Carl Bergkvist told AFP, with some economists fearing the Swift craze could send Swedish consumer prices rising again.<\/p>\n
Two concerts in Madrid are estimated to have injected 25 million euros ($27.6 million) into the Spanish capital\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n
And the tour was forecasted to boost the UK economy by almost \u00a31 billion ($1.3 billion), Barclays bank said in a study titled \u201cSwiftonomics\u201d.<\/p>\n
Seismologists across the continent recorded Swifties literally making the ground shake.<\/p>\n
In Lisbon in May, concerts triggered seismic activity detected up to six kilometres (four miles) from the stadium. The strongest activity was recorded appropriately during the song \u201cShake it off\u201d, reaching a magnitude of 0.82 on the Richter scale.<\/p>\n
In Edinburgh, the British Geological Survey revealed fan favourites \u201cReady for It?\u201d, \u201cCruel Summer\u201d and \u201cChampagne Problems\u201d resulted in the \u201cmost significant seismic activity\u201d.<\/p>\n
During \u201cReady for It?\u201d, the crowd in the Scottish capital transmitted approximately 80 kilowatts of power \u2014 equivalent to some 6,000 car batteries, the geologists said.<\/p>\n
The last month of the Europe tour was marred by a foiled suicide attack plot, with Austrian authorities revealing that an Islamic State-sympathiser was planning a deadly attack at a Swift concert in Vienna.<\/p>\n
Three suspects were detained and all three August concert dates in Vienna were cancelled following an investigation conducted with the help of US intelligence.<\/p>\n
Disappointed Swifties tried to lift their spirits by gathering at Vienna\u2019s Corneliusgasse \u2014 dear to Swift\u2019s fans for its resemblance to her hit \u201cCornelia Street\u201d \u2014 to chant the pop star\u2019s songs and exchange bracelets with each other, an Eras Tour tradition among fans.<\/p>\n
Tragedy struck when three girls were killed in a stabbing in the northwest English town of Southport at a dance class themed around Swift on July 29.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe horror of yesterday\u2019s attack in Southport is washing over me continuously, and I\u2019m just completely in shock,\u201d Swift wrote in an Instagram post, ahead of a concert in Warsaw, Poland.<\/p>\n
Swift met two survivors of the attack during her August shows in London, with a mother posting pictures on TikTok of the girls backstage with Swift after a concert, Rolling Stone magazine reported.<\/p>\n
Her fans raised nearly \u00a3400,000 for the victims under the banner \u201cSwifties for Southport\u201d.<\/p>\n
Ticketless fans dressed up and exchanged bracelets as they listened to concerts from outside stadiums in a practice known as \u201cTay-gating\u201d.<\/p>\n
In Madrid, Swift noted around 50,000 \u201cpeople came out and listened to the show\u201d from a nearby hillside on both nights, \u201cparticipating in the show from afar\u201d.<\/p>\n
Officials in London and Amsterdam warned fans not to gather outside venues though, citing disruption to local residents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n