Festival attendance boosts economy

NEARLY 20,000 revellers flocked to this year’s Scarborough Coastival festival – double the number of previous years.

Organisers of the three-day festival, which took place earlier this year, claim 19,851 people from all over the world attended the event.

This is 120 per cent more than the first Coastival in 2009 and pumped £361,584 into the seaside town’s economy.

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Organiser Wendy Clews said: “We knew from the number of people at events that attendance would be up on 2009 but until the figures were collated we had no idea the increase would be so great.

“Not only do these figures demonstrate just how successful Coastival was, they also show the tremendous impact our festival has on Scarborough’s economy during a traditionally quiet month like February.

“What is particularly pleasing is to see that visitors came from all over this country and abroad and from all different age ranges and all different economic backgrounds.”

Coastival featured 120 events in 30 venues, including music, comedy, theatre, arts, performance and activities for children.

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