After three Taylor Swift concert events in Vienna had been canceled on Wednesday (Aug. 7) following the arrest of two suspects who reportedly deliberate to unleash a terrorist assault on the reveals this weekend, ticketing firms have offered data on how ticket holders for the concert events will obtain refunds.
“We’re conscious of the information concerning the upcoming cancelled Taylor Swift reveals in Austria,” Stubhub introduced in a press release offered to Billboard on Wednesday. “All StubHub ticket holders will likely be notified through electronic mail, instantly. We are going to instantly present StubHub ticket patrons with a 120% voucher towards one other buy, in step with our occasion cancellation coverage and our FanProtect Assure. Consumers preferring a 100% money refund could make the request immediately of their StubHub pockets.”
In the meantime, Austrian ticketer oeticket posted the next assertion to its web site: “Please be aware the next data from the organizer: As a result of affirmation by authorities officers a couple of deliberate terrorist assault within the Ernst Happel Stadium, now we have no selection however to cancel the three deliberate reveals for everybody’s security. All tickets will likely be routinely refunded throughout the subsequent 10 working days.”
The identical message was initially posted on Aug. 7 by Barracuda Music, the live performance promoter for the Austrian reveals. Particulars on how oeticket refunds will likely be processed weren’t instantly out there on the time of publishing.
The announcement of the reveals’ cancellation got here hours after police confirmed {that a} 19-year-old Austrian citizen was arrested Wednesday morning for planning an unspecified terrorist assault on Vienna, the main target of which was mentioned to be Swift’s live performance. One other teenage suspect was arrested within the afternoon, in response to ABC Information.
Swift’s Vienna reveals would have marked the Eras Tour‘s second-to-last cease on its European leg, adopted by a five-night stint at London’s Wembley Stadium, scheduled for Aug. 15-20, for which Swift not too long ago introduced 5 new opening acts. On Thursday (Aug. 8), UK officers introduced that there isn’t a indication that the phobia threats earlier than the canceled Vienna reveals can have any influence on her upcoming reveals in London.
In October, Swift will return to North America for one remaining lap by means of the U.S. and Canada earlier than ending the worldwide Eras Tour trek as soon as and for all with a present in Vancouver on Dec. 8.