Editorial: The Touring Business Handbook

Big thanks to the IQ team for inviting me to edit the inaugural edition of the Touring Business Handbook, alongside the excellent Eamonn Forde.

This handbook is designed to serve as a very practical guide to touring internationally, with sections digging into the ins and outs of Visas and Immigration, Currency Exchange, Withholding Tax, Performance Royalties and much, much (much!) more.

“With thousands of tours heading out each year, IQ wanted to produce a single publication, updated every year, containing as much practical information as possible to help artists and their teams as they plan to cross borders,” say editors Francine Gorman and Eamonn Forde.

“When we started planning this first edition of the Touring Business Handbook, it was hugely encouraging that so many of the professionals we approached said the same thing – that this was something sorely missing from the desks of those planning, budgeting, and building tours. So in this first edition, we’ve invited contributions from many of the world’s top experts, who have kindly taken time to put pen to paper.”

A massive thank you to the contributors that lent their time and expertise to this: including Blacks Solicitors, Bullocks Touring, MSE Business Management, Viva La Visa, touring artists, PACE Rights Management, Voly Group, Miller Insurance, International Theatre Institute, Schickhardt Rechtsanwälte, Russells, Higginbotham Insurance Agency, CC Young & Co, All Arts Tax Advisers, mgr Weston Kay, International Theatre Institute, T&S Immigration Services, Gelfand Rennert & Feldman, Tysers Live, SRLV and Centtrip.

Head to the IQ website to read a sample, and to order a physical copy of the handbook.