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Full metal junket: music tourism hits right note with fans

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.

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