Ticket prices for Swiss concerts and music festivals hit record levels

Ticket prices for concerts and music festivals in Switzerland reached a new high in 2023. The average price of a ticket rose to CHF89.86 ($100.50) – 3.9% more than in the previous year, according to the event organiser industry association. Check out our selection of newsletters. Subscribe here. Ticket prices thus rose by more than 12% last year compared to pre-Covid 2019, according to a breakdown by the Swiss Music Promoters Association (SMPA). The members of the association of Swiss promoters of concerts, shows and festivals sell around 80% of concert, show and festival tickets sold in Switzerland. The SonntagsZeitung newspaper reported the figures. + Taylor Swift concert in Zurich causes seismic activity The number of events and sales at Swiss festivals were also higher last year than ever before. The SMPA counted a total of 2,754 festivals and events. That was almost a fifth more than in the previous year. The gross turnover of events also rose by a quarter to CHF478.4 million.