{"id":13795,"date":"2024-01-27T01:30:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T01:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/?p=13795"},"modified":"2024-01-27T01:30:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T01:30:26","slug":"lure-acts-like-taylor-swift-and-beyonce-to-hong-kong-and-enjoy-economic-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/01\/27\/lure-acts-like-taylor-swift-and-beyonce-to-hong-kong-and-enjoy-economic-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Lure acts like Taylor Swift and Beyonce to Hong Kong and enjoy economic boost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lawmaker Regina Ip has called on the government to lure international music acts such as Taylor Swift and Beyonce to Hong Kong, citing the economic boost that their concerts could bring. Speaking at a Legislative Council meeting on Wednesday, Ip said concerts could stimulate industries such as tourism and retail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 66 concerts that Swift staged last year yielded US$1 billion, she said. \u201cIn Asia, [Swift is going] to Singapore,\u201d Ip said in Cantonese. \u201cWe lost this chance.\u201d The American singer, who completed the first legs of her tour in the US and South America last year, is skipping Hong Kong on her world tour. She will hold six shows in Singapore in March. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A tourism boom linked to Swift\u2019s concerts is expected there, with fans across Asia flying in to catch the artist. Hotels have reported an increase in bookings over Swift\u2019s concert dates, media\u00a0reported, while travel searches for Singapore also spiked when ticket sales opened. Singapore\u2019s tourism board\u00a0supported\u00a0entertainment group AEG Presents Asia to bring Swift to the country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmaker Regina Ip has called on the government to lure international music acts such as Taylor Swift and Beyonce to Hong Kong, citing the economic boost that their concerts could bring. Speaking at a Legislative Council meeting on Wednesday, Ip said concerts could stimulate industries such as tourism and retail. The 66 concerts that Swift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13797,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13795\/revisions\/13797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}