SUMMARY PUBLIC INQUIRY ARTTOUR 2007
'The Bear is out'
The ArtTour 2007 was held in the Whitsun weekend, with even more new locations, open workshops and exposition spaces then the year before. Approximately 9000 people visited the ArtTour. 35 % of them from Maastricht, 10% from Heuvelland, 35 % from the other parts of Limburg and 10 % from the Euregion.
The ArtTour is more and more known in the Euregion. Artists from Atelierhaus Aachen, BBK Aachen, Luik and Hasselt took part and the coming ArtTour will make even more publicity in the Euregion to get the attention.
Like 2006 the public visited the 125 professional artists at 50 locations of the ArtTour by foot, bicycle or bus. Among the participating artists there where about 70 young artists and also the public is getting younger. Between the ages of 11-20 and 21-30 their was an increasing number of visitors.
Last year figures showed also a balance between 'newcomers' and the 'old fans'. Almost 51% of the visitors visited the ArtTour for the first time. Around 49% visited more often the ArtTour. About 10% visited all the ArtTours. So we can conclude that the ArtTour keeps attracting new audience, but also can count on the regular fans.
About the publicity we can say that the traditional ArtTour Bulletin is still popular, but that the growing number of visitors is also attracted by the free ArtTourNewspaper, the website and verbal publicity.
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