Ticket sale begins for Danang International Fireworks Festival 2023

Tickets for the Danang International Fireworks Festival (DIFF) 2023 have been sold online to create favourable conditions for local residents and tourists, according to the event’s organisers.
Ticket sale begins for Danang International Fireworks Festival 2023 ảnh 1Illustrative image. (Photo: VNA)

Da Nang (VNA) – Ticketsfor the Danang International Fireworks Festival (DIFF) 2023 have been sold online tocreate favourable conditions for local residents and tourists, according to theevent’s organisers.

Buyers can access https://diff.vn/ or call the hotline 0914155561 tobuy and inquire about tickets. Especially, they will enjoy a 5% discount whenbooking tickets on the website.

Prices of ticket range from 800,000VND (34 USD) to 3,000,000 VND.

Themed “The World Without Distance", the festival isscheduled to take place from June 2 to July 8.

This year’s event will feature eight teams from the UK, Italy,Poland, France, Australia, Canada, Finland, and Vietnam competing over fivenights across two months.

Each team will put on a 20-minute performance based on fivethemes: No Distance Love, Peace for the World, Equality for Human Being, NoLimits Innovation, and Sustainable Tourism Development. The two best teams will compete to take the top prize on the finalnight - July 8.

The latest festival in 2019, seen as the most successfulperformance with more than 1 million visitors, was completed with victory forFinland’s Joho Pyro Fireworks.

Da Nang has been the only place in Vietnam to have hosted afireworks festival, making it a magnet for the best fireworks producers fromaround the world each year since 2008. It has been building a "Fireworks Festival City"reputation to promote it as a top destination in central Vietnam and Asia./.

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