Inverness Hogmanay provide boost for city economy.

The 2011 Inverness Festivals programme will reach its climax on Saturday 31st December with Scotland's biggest free Hogmanay Concert.
 
Comedian Craig Hill will host this year's five hour Red Hot Highland Fling which will take place in at Northern Meeting Park Arena and feature local band Wolfstone with special guests Skerryvore, Bags of Rock and Hoodja.
 
Sponsored by the Inverness Common Good Fund, the Red Hot Highland Fling is one of only three major outdoor Hogmanay musical events being staged this year, and unlike Edinburgh and Stirling, the Inverness event is free for locals and visitors like to enjoy.
 
The Inverness event is now officially the 2nd largest Hogmanay concert staged in Scotland behind Edinburgh, following the decision by Glasgow not to stage an event in George Square.
 
Inverness Festivals Chairman Councillor Roy Pedersen said "The growing interest in our Hogmanay Party, and the use of Northern Meeting Park as a concert venue, is very pleasing to see. It is clear that staging the Red Hot Highland Fling in the winter and the Summer in the City Concerts in August provide a very welcome boost to the economy of Inverness at different times of the year. There has been an increase in the number of enquries from folk based in the Central Belt wishing to organise trips around the Hogmanay show and we are really looking forward to giving everybody visiting our City the warmest of Highland welcomes."