Change is needed, but this is not the way to bring it about.

Why not? What on earth have they done wrong? Cancelled a tour because in the circumstances it because uneconomical, and issued a press release explaining why they had cancelled it.   What's wrong with that.   

If it makes someone in the bureucracy machine have another think, well and good. If not, there are plenty of other places to go on tour where this kind of problem just doesn't arise.