Unless people outside the U.K. are traveling there for the concerts, there is no boost to the U.K. economy. If anything, it’s a loss as she’ll take the money they give her back to the U.S.
Does the UK still have punitive taxes on performers? Or just their own unfortunates who live there?
Don’t forget her crew. She runs a larger crew than usual, puts them up at very nice hotels and pays them a lot with days off so they can be spending money. And people will definitely be traveling in. The tour had a traceable economic boost in America.
I heard that for some of the concerts that people are flying there from the US.
In one of the Scandanvian countries they do not allow the resale of ticket prices at greatly over the face value. Like we see here in the USA. Therefore, it was less money to fly there, stay in a hotel and fly home than what the tickets were selling for in some of the USA cities.
I meant to say that for some concerts the amount of USA people attending was 20-30% because of the lowered ticket price based on my previous post.
At least that is what they said on the radio last week.