Edinburgh Fringe is in a crisis From a lack of accommodation to a booking app that never launched, the festival has some big problems it needs to address if it wants to survive another 75 years. 🔵 Veronica Lee for ipaperviews
and I am genuinely excited about seeing how performers such as Rosie Holt, Ania Magliano and Joseph Parsons will fare performing an hour each day for 25 days, in the flesh, in front of Fringe audiences, the most critical in the business.
Owners of hotels, Airbnbs, student accommodation and private lets have always raised their prices during the Fringe, but this year – when the city should be falling over itself to welcome back festival-goers – the situation is particularly egregious. A Premier Inn in central Edinburgh, for example, is advertising rooms for nearly £230 in August, when it charged nearer £140 in July.
And then there is the Fringe Society, the purpose of which defies even the keenest brains to define, other than to nominally oversee the Fringe and charge performers up to £393.60 to appear in its brochure, which many say was launched too late this year. It announced just weeks before the opening that its much-vaunted booking app would not be launched, leaving punters with just its lumbering edfringe.com website to search for shows and book tickets.
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