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Fringe ticket sales fall by 10%
by Dave Keating | August 26, 2008 at 02:48 am | 650 views | 2 comments | 2 recommendations
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is a massive event here in the UK. It is known worldwide as one of the top theater festivals, and is a prominent spotlight for new playwrights.
However this year a limping worlwide economy and terrible August weather in the UK resulted in the biggest downturn in ticket sales in eight years.
Ticket sales at this year's Edinburgh Fringe were down by almost 10% - the first fall in eight years.
Bad weather, the poor global economy, competition from the Olympics and problems at the Fringe box office were all cited as factors in the downturn.
The Fringe sold more than 1.5 million tickets for the third year running but that was down from 1.7 million in 2007.
Fringe director Jon Morgan said he was delighted with the overall figures in what he had been a "difficult year".
He also pointed to the increasing number of free fringe events which are not included in the final tally.
August 26, 2008 at 02:48 am by Dave Keating, 650 views, 2 comments
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at 02:55 on August 26th, 2008
Dave Keating, I like this story. It's good stuff.
So it's going bad and now everybody gets discount??
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mfkirkeat 07:06 on August 30th, 2008
I would not blame the weather or the economy but the chaos in the Fringe Office. Even the Friends of the Fringe Hut was usually beset with queues. The new ticketing system seems to have gone the way of all big computer systems these days and gone live without adequate testing.