Edinburgh Festivals attract over 3,000 events, 25,000 performers, 4.5 million attendances from 70 countries worldwide
Only the Olympics and the World Cup exceed the number of tickets sold for Edinburgh’s festival events
Edinburgh’s World Heritage site covers over 1.76 square miles and over 75% of all the buildings are listed – the highest concentration of listed buildings anywhere in the UK. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world
Screen Academy Scotland has been providing practical training to future generations wishing to enter the tv and film industry for over 30 years
Edinburgh is a hotspot for research and development within the creative and digital sectors. It provides opportunities through organisations such as Creative Informatics