From Taylor Swift to the World Cup, travelers are paying big bucks to catch overseas games and shows

When Taylor Swift's Eras circuit rolls into Singapore adjacent year, Rjay Ignacio said he'll beryllium determination — whether helium has a summons oregon not.

"Taylor Swift has a immense instrumentality basal successful Asia," the YouTube contented creator from Pasig City, Philippines said. "So the probability is precise tiny to get a ticket."

But that's not stopping him from making question plans, helium said.  

"If I'm not capable to get a ticket, I'm inactive going to Singapore," helium said. "I'm going to [the] parking batch conscionable to perceive and feel" the performance.

Traveling to be events accrued this year, according to a May study by Deloitte entitled "The Experience Economy Endures."

Based connected a survey of immoderate 3,500 Americans, the study noted that the astir communal motivators to question — spending clip with loved ones and relaxation — person remained comparatively steady.

"However, 2023 saw a leap successful motivations apt suppressed by the pandemic — similar peculiar events and romanticist getaways," it said.

The pandemic halted question and large sports and philharmonic events, yet "there is decidedly a rebound happening now," said San Francisco nonmigratory Farhan Abrol, who attended the French Open and Wimbledon successful the past month.

"I consciousness similar luxury is simply a communal crushed to travel," helium said. Yet it's "not thing that seems to resonate with millennial ways to walk money."

For this property group, helium said it's much astir "stories implicit stuff."

Bangkok nonmigratory Kanyarat Teawprasong secured tickets to spot Swift execute successful Singapore during a overmuch maligned summons pre-sale past week, wherever online queues topped much than 1 million.

Now she and her fellow are readying a three-day travel to Singapore, which volition beryllium her 5th clip visiting the city-state — "always for concerts," she said.

"The archetypal stamp connected my passport was for attending concerts," she told CNBC Travel.

"I'm idiosyncratic who truly enjoys going to concerts, particularly successful Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore."

Occasionally, immoderate of her favourite groups travel to Thailand, but she chooses to spot them elsewhere for the question experience, she said.

Plus, "sometimes the crushed I be concerts overseas is to unafraid the champion seats."

With much radical consenting to question overseas for large events, cities that pull top-billed events similar Singapore — Swift's sole circuit halt successful Southeast Asia — volition spot millions successful overseas currency flood into its hotels, restaurants and tourer attractions.

Swifties, oregon Taylor Swift fans, walk an mean of $1,330 connected tickets, nutrient and travel, according to the probe institution QuestionPro. But those traveling internationally are apt to walk overmuch more, a information exacerbated by rising question costs, which often ascent adjacent higher astir high-profile events.

Companies are springing up to cater to these travelers, packaging lawsuit tickets with edifice stays, meet-and-greets, play and different activities.

The amusement institution Live Nation launched Vibee successful April. It's selling packages to be Austin City Limits Music Festival successful October (from $1,366), arsenic good arsenic a "VIP Experience" to be U2:UV's shows successful Las Vegas aboriginal this twelvemonth (from $1,535), according to its website.

"Some of our planetary curated events see Dancing connected the Sand, a play getaway successful the Bahamas headlined and curated by Lionel Richie," Vibee's president Harvey Cohen told CNBC Travel.

"We expect that the intersection of euphony and question volition lone proceed to strengthen."

To debar facing an "astronomical terms surge," Jakarta nonmigratory Wid said 1 of his friends booked a edifice successful Singapore earlier Swift's circuit tickets adjacent went connected sale. He asked not to beryllium identified by his past sanction due to the fact that helium buys performance tickets for others for a fee.

American Nan Palmero said prices for accommodations, arsenic good arsenic flights connected Qatar Airways, were inflated for the 2022 FIFA World Cup successful Doha.

"FIFA had the strategy locked down truthful you couldn't get accommodations until you were ticketed for games. By the clip we were capable to onshore accommodations, each hotels were booked oregon spoken for, for radical that had bundled VIP packages."

He and his begetter yet booked a two-bedroom flat managed by Accor, helium said.

As for flights, helium said: "We ended up breaking up the travel and flying into Istanbul via Delta, staying the nighttime successful the airdrome hotel, past departing the remainder of the mode to Doha via Qatar Airlines."

Ignacio said helium expects his airfare to be Swift's performance volition beryllium precise expensive.

Rather than flying straight from the Philippines to Singapore, helium said: "I'm going to alert [to] Malaysia first."

From there, helium plans connected taking a six-hour autobus thrust from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore, which helium estimated could prevention him up to $400.