Street art is public art

“One of the things we all know in the tourism business is that people go to different places for different reasons. There are many reasons why tourists want to make their way to Oman in general and then to the Muscat, and art, and within that, street art, is one of them.”

Saying that people from all over the world can easily relate to street art, and that is why it is important to focus on it as a form of tourism.

• Tirado agreed that the ease of accessibility that street art offers is an aspect that makes it ideal to be used as a tourism boost.
• Through the use of street art to attract tourism, tour companies, the Tourism Council, and the street artists themselves hope to ignite a cultural shift.

Street art-hunting has become a sort of tourism. People visit East London or New York’s Lower East Side and Williamsburg or, formerly, 5Pointz, just to see some of the street art there.

• While graffiti is traditionally seen as a menace by local authorities, the ‘Banksy effect’ has led to relaxed laws in Bristol
• Street art events now held in the city while the Banksy exhibition 2 years ago attracted hundreds of thousands of fans
• Artists now travel from all over the wall to daub colourful guerrilla art onto famous landmarks and buildings in the city 
• Bristol’s assistant Mayor for the Arts said Banksy has had an enormous impact on the art scene and daily life in Bristol