{"id":4299,"date":"2014-05-02T10:50:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T10:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/05\/02\/uk-could-earn-extra-p4bn-from-music-heritage-tourism\/"},"modified":"2014-05-02T10:50:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T10:50:41","slug":"uk-could-earn-extra-p4bn-from-music-heritage-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/05\/02\/uk-could-earn-extra-p4bn-from-music-heritage-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"UK could earn extra \u00a34bn from music heritage tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/a\/ae\/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg\/800px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"218\" height=\"109\" \/><br \/>The UK could earn an extra \u00a34bn every year in music heritage tourism, according to a recent report from UK Music. Titled Imagine, the study&#8217;s findings take the example of Liverpool,  where the heritage of The Beatles attracts millions of music tourists  every year and generates \u00a370 million for Liverpool\u2019s local economy. Other cities named include Hull, which will become the City of  Culture in 2017 and boasts the only museum dedicated to night clubbing  as well as being home to David Bowie\u2019s backing band, the Spiders from  Mars.\u00a0  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>In 2013 its Museum of Club Culture hosted a temporary exhibition  celebrating David Bowie\u2019s stage-persona Ziggy, drawing 30,000 visitors  to the city.<\/p>\n<p>Coventry\u2019s Music Museum recently welcomed its 1,000th paying visitor  who travel to Coventry for its music heritage from Japan, Australia,  Malaysia and the USA. And in Sheffield, Uncommon People is an online  guide to home-grown bands, artists and musicians, such as Jarvis Cocker  and the Arctic Monkeys.<\/p>\n<p>Jo Dipple, UK Music CEO, said: \u201cMusic tourism is big business, with  millions of pounds spent getting closer to the music we love. Our  recommendations in Imagine are designed to help local and central  Government provide a framework for a vibrant music destination economy.  We want to inspire local authorities to make the most of the music  heritage on their doorstep.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiverpool has harnessed the potential of its musical heroes and is  seeing huge economic and cultural benefits. But the story shouldn\u2019t end  there. Cities across the UK have strong music histories and could create  a new economy by exploiting their own music heritage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ed Vaizey, Creative Industries Minister said: \u201cThe huge financial  contribution to the UK economy by the millions of music tourists to the  UK annually makes it very clear that when combined, the music and  tourism industries are powerful drivers for growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK could earn an extra \u00a34bn every year in music heritage tourism, according to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}