What would prevent those 13k visitors coming in June to boost business during that time? And as per jo and my post above, if you think the Clipsal doesn't prevent people from entering the city, you're off your chops.Booney wrote:bennymacca wrote:morell wrote:Sure, but then there's a fair degree of market canabalism going on with other festivities.bennymacca wrote:its a perfect location. because its in the city where everything else is.
thats why it was so successful, and why it has been copied by other events. its not just a race, its the concerts, the nightlife afterwards, etc etc
If it's to stay in the city, then re-time it. There's this massive aversion to doing anything in Adelaide in winter, supposedly to avoid bad weather and AFL, but geez there's a bunch of very quiet sunny weekends in that time where a boutique car race might work really well.
Plenty of opportunities to move it onelce the Bend is up and running, then that could boost regional economies and spread the benefits.
i would like to see research as to whether it actually does cannibalise other events like the fringe or festival etc
a) they are likely different demographics
b) for people that are interested in both and from interstate, one or the other might not be enough incentive to visit adelaide, but having more than one thing to do could be enough to make the trip
Figures I've found range from 11,000 to 13,000 interstate visitors come for the 500. I would expect many, many of them would enter the Garden and Fringe events while they're here. Will or does this stop Adelaide people from going to the Garden or Fringe?
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You might not like the City except in March, but thousands upon thousands do. Its where a lot of people recreate, shop and do all sorts of stuff. Myself included. I don't do any of that in March.
There no doubt market cannibalism is there, its just determining to what degree and whether shifting it would improve it.