Thursday marked the arrival of NFL sensation Travis Kelce in Australia, where Taylor Swift’s girlfriend is putting on a string of sold-out concerts as part of the tour’s international leg, which is currently setting a new record.
The Kansas City Chiefs player was seen ascending from a Bombardier private aircraft and entering a van in Sydney, where Swift will perform the first of four concerts on Friday, according to aerial footage provided to NBC News by Channel Seven Australia.
Ross Travis, a teammate of Kelce’s who is accompanying him on this journey, also uploaded an Instagram photo of the Australian coastline captured from the aircraft. (When initially covering their arrival live, the Australian media struggled to distinguish between the two players.)
Swift and Kelce, both 34 years old, have been frequently traveling around the globe to promote one another’s explosive careers. Swift departed Tokyo immediately following the final of four concerts on February 10 and flew to Las Vegas in time to witness the Chiefs’ third consecutive Super Bowl victory in five years the following day. Swift then returned to the Asia-Pacific for three performances in Melbourne, Australia, from February 16-18, where she reportedly delivered her largest concert ever in front of 96,000 fans.
Kelce traveled to Argentina in November to attend one of the music icon’s performances in Buenos Aires.
It has been attributed that The Eras Tour, the first concert tour to surpass one billion dollars in revenue, stimulates local economies by attracting fans from far and wide. This month, Swift’s Australian concerts took place concurrently with the “Swiftposium” academic conference, which was held in Melbourne to facilitate scholarly discourse on the economic and other ramifications of her fame.
The An Eras Tour concert film, which debuted in theaters across the globe in October, also surpassed all domestic concert films in terms of revenue within days of its debut in the United States and Canada.
Swift will perform her final concerts in Asia from March 2-9 in Singapore, the only location in Southeast Asia. Government officials announced this week that they had awarded Swift a grant to support her six performances in the city-state. They declined to reveal the precise sum, invoking business confidentiality, but acknowledged the “substantial economic benefits” that her concerts would almost certainly contribute to Singapore.