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Singapore's Taylor Swift jackpot about more than exclusivity

With planning, city-state has assembled compelling package for event organizers

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Fans pose outside Taylor Swift's concert venue in Singapore on Mar. 2: Event tourism has taken on more significance after the enforced isolation of the COVID era.   © Reuters

Gary Ng is senior economist for Asia-Pacific thematic research at Natixis in Hong Kong and a research fellow at the Central European Institute of Asian Studies in Bratislava.

"Swiftonomics" has rippled through many economies over the past year as Taylor Swift has made her way across the globe, holding huge sellout concerts.

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