To welcome the new year Opodo, reveals its top 10 destinations booked for 2024, three new emerging destinations, and how Taylor Swift’s 2024 Eras Tour across Asia and Europe is shifting consumer travel behaviour.
Trending destinations in 2024 reflect travellers’ desires to explore vibrant cities. For the year ahead, Amsterdam, Dublin and Barcelona make up the top three globally, revealing consumer preferences for city breaks to kick off a new year of travel.
2024 bookings to date reveal three emerging destinations: Frankfurt, New Delhi and Munich (none of which made it into the top 20 destinations in 2023).
2024 top destinations
1. Amsterdam
2. Dublin
3. Barcelona
4. Paris
5. Malága
6. Rome
7. Alicante
8. Istanbul
9. Belfast
10. Lisbon
The Taylor Swift Effect
Since the launch of Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour in the USA 17th March 2023, the travel industry is seeing a significant shift in consumer behaviour for searches to concert destinations around the world. Opodo reveals how “The Taylor Effect” continues to take root with her shows for 2024.
Opodo has looked at searches to cities over the dates of Taylor Swift events in 2024 and compared these to searches to the same cities over the same dates last year. This data reveals that searches for Stockholm have increased almost five-fold (+473%) year on year for 17-19 May. Searches for Warsaw increased +339% over her August tour dates in 2024 compared to the same period in 2023. Searches for Edinburgh and Liverpool over the 7th-15th June have grown +176% and +133% respectively. Finally, searches for Paris over Swift’s May tour dates show a bounce year on year of +108%.
Beyond these top five cities, others enjoying ‘the Taylor Swift effect’ include Zurich (+76%), Lyon (+67%), Milan (+57%), Amsterdam (+50%) and Vienna (+46%). Notably, it continues to drive Americans abroad: US travellers lead the board globally for the most searches over concert dates to Paris, Madrid, Dublin, Amsterdam, Zurich, Hamburg and London.
How does the Swift effect reveal itself in the UK? Brits take the leaderboard for the most searches for travel to Lisbon, Warsaw, Edinburgh and Cardiff over her tour dates.
Australians willing to make a long-haul Taylor Swift pilgrimage, on the other hand, are heading to London over any other Swift-tour destination. Aussies rank 2nd for searches to travel to London over her dates there (21- 23 June), behind first-place interest from Americans.
Which other artists might replicate ‘the Swift effect’? Bad Bunny with his latest North American tour? Or perhaps Lauryn Hill’s 25th anniversary tour of her wildly successful album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
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