As we head into a winter of economic uncertainty the future of bigger publishing events will be in question, and even for the big corporate events there will be challenges as exhibitors and attendees think twice.
A Lake District book festival is being cancelled amid the cost of living crisis with organisers uncertain of its long-term future. That’s a BBC headline this weekend as the Words by the Water book festival is cancelled, shorty after the Keswick Mountain Festival was postponed.
According to the BBC, Festival Director Leah Varnell said there was a “pincer movement” of escalating costs and declining ticket sales. At a sister festival in Totnes, Devon, in July, ticket sales had “absolutely plummeted” with Ms Varnell attributing the fall to the cost of living.
People are feeling it and are worried about it. The first things you jettison if you are worried about money are leisure activities or pleasurable things that you can do without when you need to be paying your gas bill.
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Today, a small UK book festival. Tomorrow…
As we head into a winter of economic uncertainty the future of bigger publishing events will be in question, and even for the big corporate events there will be challenges as exhibitors and attendees think twice.
