Ticket prices for the Da Nang International Fireworks Festival 2018 will range from 300,000 VND (13.3 USD) to 2 million VND (88.5 USD) for each night’s performance on Han River banks between April 30 and June 30.
A performance in the Da Nang International Fireworks Festival in 2017 (Source: VNA)
Da Nang (VNA) - Ticket prices for the DaNang International Fireworks Festival 2018 will range from 300,000 VND (13.3USD) to 2 million VND (88.5 USD) for each night’s performance on Han Riverbanks between April 30 and June 30.
The festival organiser, Sun Group, said ticketprices for the opening and final night will be sold from 400,000 VND (17.7 USD)and 2 million VND (88.5 USD) each night. Tickets for children less than a metre tall willbe fixed at 50,000 VND (2.2 USD) each night.
The host Vietnam and Poland will perform in thecurtain-raiser night on April 30. France and the US will be the secondperformers on May 26. Defending champions Italy and Hong Kong (China)will perform on June 2, while Sweden and Portugal will light up the night ofJune 9. The two best teams will be selected for the finalon June 30, where the winner of the festival will be chosen. Thisyear’s festival, entitled ‘The Legend of Bridges’, will include nightfestivals, food and music shows every night along with fireworks performances.
Held forthe first time in 2008, the event, formerly known as the Da Nang InternationalFireworks Competition, has emerged as an important cultural and tourism event,contributing to cultural exchanges and wooing many foreign tourists to Da Nangand Vietnam. From2017, the annual event has become a two-month festival in order to lure morevisitors to the city.
More than 1.3 million tourists visited Da Nang during thefireworks festival between A༒pril and June last 🐎year, bringing to the totalnumber of holidaymakers to the central city in 2017 to 6.6 million visitors, an increase of 19 percent against the previousyear.-VNA
The Da Nang International Fireworks Festival (DIFF) 2018 will be held in the central coastal city of Da Nang from April 29 to June 30 to celebrate the country’s Reunification Day (April 30).
The central city of Da Nang plans to organise a wide range of cultural and festive programmes along the banks of the Han River at weekends and on public holidays to attract more international and local tourists.
The central city of Da Nang aims to promote the Da Nang International Fireworks Festival (DIFF) to foreign friends and the city’s image as a leading destination of festivals and events in Asia.
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A performance in the Da Nang International Fireworks Festival in 2017 (Source: VNA)
