Sziget Festival: more than 1,000 programmes, British, Romanian, and Israeli tourists

This year’s Sziget Festival in Budapest will offer more than 1,000 programmes featuring performers including Kylie Minogue, Liam Gallagher and Martin Garrix, the organisers said on Tuesday, on the eve of the opening. The festival is taking place for the 30th time this year between August 7 and 12 at 50 venues.

Based on sales so far, the organisers expect a full house for Martin Garrix’s concert on Saturday and Fred again… on Monday. Visitors are expected from some 100 countries, mostly from The Netherlands, Britain, Ireland, Germany, France and Italy, the event’s chief organiser, Tamás Kádár, said.

The first festival-goers arrived today. Photo: FB/Sziget

Additional international stars will include Halsey, Sam Smith, Stormzy, Louis Tomlinson, Janelle Monae, Fisher, Skrillex, Bebe Rexha, Tom Odell, Joker Out, Yves Tumor, Becky Hill and Raye. The main stage will also feature concerts by Hungarian performers Beton.Hofi, Margaret Island and Azahriah.

In addition to music, festivalgoers will also get a chance to see theatre and circus performances.

A total of six hundred performers will be featured over six days, many of them arriving from the UK, France, Germany, Holland and the US, but some will come from Senegal, India, Tanzania, New Zealand and Benin.

Lots of tourists coming to Sziget Festival

The daily capacity of the festival grounds is 95,000 people, of which 10-15,000 are performers and staff, with the remaining 75,000-80,000 being ticketholders.

Kádár said the average price of food for sale on the festival grounds will be lower than last year and the price of drinks will be the same as last year in nominal terms.

The Sziget festival area will include several campsites and a medical centre offering services 24 hours a day with a total staff of 200 people.

According to turizmus.com and based on the data of kiwi.com, most tourists come from Great Britain, Romania and Israel. But the number of Danish, Turkish, American and German festival-goers also rose this year. For example, the number of Turkish festival-goers doubled.

Most tourists will arrive on 7 August in Budapest, so you should prepare for increased traffic at Budapest Airport and the roads leading to the Hajógyári Island.

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