Welches Festival hätten Sie denn gern‘? Neue Musik und Tourismus

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There are many Festivals for Contemporary Music in Germany. This music is described as Contemporary Music, New Music, Modern Music, Music of our times or Acutely Music. People who want to listen to this music need to travel to certain locations in cities or smaller places in the provincial areas. So in order to listen to Contemporary Classical Music they have to travel, book hotels, select means of traffic and organize itineraries. The audience transforms to tourists. But what does it mean for the tourism industry? Are Festival-organisers of Contemporaray Music aware of the fact that their programs and offers are connected to touristic aspects? Torben Schmidt searched for answers.

Production: Hessischer Rundfunk (hr2) – Neue Musik, 2009
Duration: 59 Minutes
Editor: Stefan Fricke
Author: Torben Schmidt

(The radio program is produced in the German language only.)