Da Nang int’l fireworks festival prices announced
Ticket prices for the Da Nang International Fireworks Festival 2018 will range from VND300,000 (US$13.3) to VND2 million (US$88.5) for each night’s performance on Han River banks between April 30 and June 30.
The festival organiser, Sun Group, said ticket prices for the opening and final night will be sold from VND400,000 (US$17.7) and VND2 million (US$88.5) each night. Tickets for children less than a metre tall will be fixed at VND50,000 (US$2.2) each night.
This year’s festival, entitled ‘The Legend of Bridges’, will include night festivals, food and music shows every night along with fireworks performances.
Held for the first time in 2008, the event, formerly known as the Da Nang International Fireworks Competition, has emerged as an important cultural and tourism event, contributing to cultural exchanges and wooing many foreign tourists to Da Nang and Vietnam. From 2017, the annual event has become a two-month festival in order to lure more visitors to the city.
More than 1.3 million tourists visited Da Nang during the fireworks festival between April and June last year, bringing to the total number of holidaymakers to the central city in 2017 to 6.6 million visitors, an increase of 19 percent against the previous year.