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Hundreds of thousands of Taylor Swift fans descended on Seattle
on Saturday ahead of the pop star's "The Eras Tour", her latest stop
in tourism-boosting concerts across the United States.
Throngs of fans lined up to purchase T-shirts and other
merchandise outside Lumen Field, where the mega-star will perform on Saturday
and Sunday.
Fresh off a flight from Salt Lake City, Utah, Ragnhild Read
waited to purchase Swift memorabilia.
"For Taylor, I would go across the world to see her,"
she told Reuters.
The avid fan previously saw Swift's performance in Salt Lake
City in 2013 when she traveled there from her home in Seattle. This time, she
is doing the journey in reverse.
Swift's concerts have helped boost hotel and restaurant revenue
in cities across the world. Visit Seattle, the city's tourist organization,
hopes the same will happen this weekend.
"We're really looking for a very successful weekend as far
as hotel occupancy goes. We have a number of properties that have already sold
out, so that's a very good sign," said Visit Seattle Senior Vice President
of Community Engagement and Public Affairs Michael Woody.
King County Council declared the week leading up to the concert
as "Taylor Swift Week" in her honor.
A gigantic friendship bracelet hangs above the entrance of the
famed Space Needle, a nod to the trend for fans to exchange the woven jewelry
during the tour, which started as a reference to her song "You’re on Your
Own, Kid" from her latest album "Midnights".
Woody
said he expects 144,000 Swift fans to descend on the city over the two days of
concerts.
Some
Swift fans arrived from Canada, where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked the American pop star weeks
ago on Twitter to add some Canadian stops to her tour.
"I
love Taylor Swift and she’s not coming to Canada yet,” said Katherine Archibald
who is visiting Seattle from Calgary, Alberta for the concert. "Because
flights were so expensive I had to fly all the way down to LA and then back to
Seattle, that was the cheapest flight route available."
In
addition to the two sold out concerts, Seattle is also hosting multiple
sporting events, the Bite of Seattle food festival, and the Capitol Hill Block
Party music festival this weekend.
Reporting by Matt
McKnight; Editing by Diane Craft
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