Ed Sheeran announced this week that he will embark on a math tour to Bhutan, India and the Middle East in early 2025.
Officially named the “+–=÷x Tour,” the tour also includes a notable stop in Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan, on January 24, 2025. According to a press release, this will be the first major international concert to be held in the country. concert.
Tickets went on sale on Saturday, and the cheapest ticket, priced at 860 Bhutanese Ngultrum ($10), has already sold out. Other ticket prices for the concert at Thimphu’s Changlimitang Stadium are $30, $50, $70 and $100.
According to user ranking site Ranker.com, the average price of an Ed Sheeran concert ticket is $167, ranking Sheeran second behind singer Pink in terms of artists who are “worth the ticket price.” has been done.
By contrast, tickets for Sheeran’s February performance in Singapore ranged from S$88 to S$488 ($65 to $363), according to booking site Crook.
International participants, excluding Indian citizens, will be required to obtain a visa to enter Bhutan ($40) and pay the country’s sustainable development fee during their visit. The fee is currently set at $100 for adults and $50 for children ages 6 to 12.
The fee will be charged per person per day and will be used to “protect the natural environment and provide free education and free healthcare to our people,” Bhutan’s Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay told CNBC Travel in May. .
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After the performance in Thimphu, Sheeran will perform six shows in India in February in the cities of Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru, Shillong and Delhi, followed by Qatar on April 30th and Bahrain on May 2nd. There will be a performance at.
Bhutan’s performances are being promoted by live entertainment companies AEG Presents and One Fiinix Live, as well as Gelephu Mindfulness City, a 2,600 square kilometer city that serves as the economic and tourism gateway to Bhutan.
The yet-to-be-built master plan for the city calls for a low-to-medium-rise city to be built around a series of bridges, with a new international airport, a university, medical facilities for Eastern and Western medicine, and, according to plans, a psychiatric center. and a hydroelectric dam is constructed.
According to a press release announcing Sheeran’s new concert dates, the sustainable city’s goal, designed to support a population of 1 million people, is to be the “greenest, cleanest and safest city” in the world. It is said that it is to become.
Sheeran began his Math Tour in 2022 and has performed 134 shows to date. The tour is scheduled to end in 2025.
