Numbers going overseas for
music events are soaring“Three thousand heavy metal fans disembarking from a cruise ship in Invergordon, imagine that,” says Olaf Furniss, the founder of consultancy Music Tourist. “Music cruises are one of the interesting growth areas of music tourism. There has been a boom; it is a real development of the last few years.”
Furniss is referring to the phenomenon that was the seventh Full Metal Cruise – touted as the “biggest heavy metal cruise in Europe”, with bands including Grave Digger and Rose Tattoo on board – which pulled into Tyne and Invergordon last year.