Perth Festival 2019 Report

Perth Festival attracts thousands of tourists and fosters social harmony and community pride in Western Australia, a new report shows. More than 7,300 overseas and interstate visitors made a big economic impact on WA through the Festival last summer, recording 26,650 attendances and staying a combined 65,112 nights while they were here. ​Forty per cent of surveyed tourists said they had come to Perth specifically for the Festival. The Festival’s direct economic impact was $19 million, providing flow-on economic value to the State of $26.4 million and generating 581 full-time equivalent jobs. the Festival made a major impact with its arts sector development initiatives and the most comprehensive creative learning and education program of any arts festival in Australia.

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