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Travel searches to Britain and Ireland rise as Oasis set to reunite – CNBC TV18

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This one is for the Woodstock lovers! Soon after British rock band Oasis’ teased their highly anticipated reunion tour next summer, travel searches for Britain and Ireland have witnessed a dramatic increase in searches, according to Spanish online travel agency eDreams, Reuters reported.

Flight searches surged nearly 30 times on August 27, the day Oasis revealed their return to the stage, eDreams said. Tickets for the 14-show tour, billed as the “big event of 2025,” will go on sale in Britain and Ireland starting Saturday.

Interest for some tour destinations soared even higher. Travel searches for Cardiff, the Welsh capital, increased by more than 100 times compared to the previous year. Searches for Manchester, the Gallagher brothers’ hometown in northern England, jumped eightfold, and interest in Dublin rose sevenfold.

The -pop legends reunited, with brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher ending a 15-year feud, and announced a lineup of live concerts scheduled to be held in 2025.

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This comes after days of intense speculations on the internet after the band and the Gallagher brothers teased a potential reunion, after their bitter backstage brawl in 2009 which made them part ways.

Among travelers, Italians showed the greatest interest in visiting the cities hosting Oasis concerts, followed by Spaniards, Germans, and British and French citizens.

Taylor Swift’s “Eras” tour also boosted air travel demand across Europe between May and August of this year. Oasis had disbanded in 2009 after lead guitarist and main songwriter Noel Gallagher left amid ongoing conflicts with his younger brother Liam, the band’s frontman.

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