They were also on the Visit Bathurst website, according to the city's tourism and visitor services manager Dan Cove, who said the Elton effect was obvious at the Bathurst Visitor Information Centre.

"Phone inquiries have been steadily increasing over the past two weeks and certainly peaked" on Wednesday, Mr Cove said.

"Many of these were general concert inquiries, or last minute accommodation requests, but there were also a number who requested information on other activities in the region," he said.

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The visitbathurst.com.au tourism website was getting more than 50 hits a minute on Wednesday and traffic to the website was up 93.5 per cent compared to last January, Mr Cove said.

"Most were looking for Elton information, with 'What's On', 'Villages' and 'Things to Do' the next most popular sections," he said.

"And the visitor centre itself had high visitation over the past couple of days [Tuesday and Wednesday], with Wednesday almost double a usual January weekday's numbers."

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Mr Cove said visitors to Bathurst for the concert were interested in what else to see while they were in the city.

Visitor centre staff had served "large numbers of people looking to explore Bathurst and wondering what were the best options for a few hours or longer".

"The heritage of the city seemed particularly popular, and there were also a number of inquiries for shopping, particularly boutique shopping, and for local produce," he said.

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Mr Cove said a great many - "likely the majority" - of the visitors to the city for the concert were making it just a single night stay, but "we have chatted to many who have turned the event into a short break of two to three nights".

The visitor centre had people from Broken Hill, Wagga Wagga, Canberra and Newcastle come through the doors who were in Bathurst for the concert, he said, among others.

There were a lot of travellers from the broader Central West, he said.