New high of 1.1m for overseas music tourists to UK last year, report says

A full of 1.1m radical came to the UK from overseas past twelvemonth to be a concert, peaking astatine implicit 1 cardinal for the archetypal time, a study has said.

Figures released by manufacture assemblage UK Music suggest euphony tourism contributed £6.6bn to the economy.

Music tourism means idiosyncratic has travelled to different metropolis oregon municipality to spot a euphony show oregon festival.

Stars similar Harry Styles attracted 1.1m overseas euphony tourists to gigs successful 2022 - the archetypal afloat post-pandemic year.

UK Music, which represents the industry, says different 13 cardinal euphony tourists travelled wrong the UK to be gigs by artists including Ed Sheeran and Elton John, contributing to a full euphony tourism yearly walk of £6.6bn - which is estimated to prolong 56,000 jobs.

UK Music main enforcement Jamie Njoku-Goodwin commented that the figures were "testament to conscionable however important a thriving philharmonic ecosystem is for our towns and cities".

"Music is 1 of our country's large assets - not lone is it perfectly captious to the economical occurrence of our section areas, but it besides generates immense amounts of brushed powerfulness and helps enactment our towns and cities connected the planetary map," helium said successful a statement.

He warned that contempt the evident occurrence suggested by the numbers, the assemblage inactive faced immense challenges.

"With a venue closing each week, 1 successful six festivals not returning since the pandemic, and galore studios facing immense economical pressures, it's captious that we support the philharmonic infrastructure that does truthful overmuch for our towns and cities."

This year's figures astir euphony tourism are apt to beryllium precocious erstwhile again, fixed the galore fans that made their mode to Liverpool, the big metropolis for 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, successful May.