Ellie Ames 11 June 2024

Edinburgh council celebrates ‘spectacular’ Eras Tour welcome

Edinburgh council celebrates ‘spectacular’ Eras Tour welcome image
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The City of Edinburgh Council has paid tribute to fans, residents, transport services and staff after Taylor Swift’s global tour descended on the city at the weekend.

Edinburgh was the first UK stop on Taylor Swift's career-spanning Eras Tour and the event is expected to have injected tens of millions of pounds into the city’s economy.

Each of her three performances at the Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium broke the all-time attendance record for a stadium show in Scotland, with total attendance at almost 220,000.

Council leader Cammy Day said: ‘Edinburgh truly has given Taylor Swift and her hundreds of thousands of fans visiting the capital from across the globe this weekend a spectacular welcome.

‘From everything I have seen so far the atmosphere across the city has been one of fun and celebration.’

But Cllr Day said he was also conscious of the impact on residents, and thanked them and council partners Lothian Buses and Edinburgh Trams ‘for extending such a warm welcome’ to concert attendees.

Edinburgh Trams said Swifties heading to Murrayfield had made the weekend the line’s busiest yet.

Managing director Lea Harrison said: ‘Since the middle of last week, we have recorded over 250,000 trips, and when all the numbers have been totalled, this should give us both the highest daily and most impressive weekend figures in our ten-year history.’

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