Nha Trang International Light Bay Festival should be annual: organisers

The 2024 Nha Trang International Light Bay Festival held in July.  VNA Photo

KHÁNH HÒA The organisers of the successful Nha Trang International Light Bay Festival, an international drone light show competition held in July, has proposed making it an annual event to boost tourism.

Nguyễn Hoài Thu, the chief organiser and chairwoman of Corex Business Solutions Joint Stock Company, has said recently that this would help build the city’s reputation as a tourist destination.

She said her company is developing a programme for next year that promises to be more attractive, unique, and innovative than this year's.

Nguyễn Tấn Tuân, chairman of the Khánh Hòa Province People's Committee, said the festival helped showcase Nha Trang’s tourism offerings to the international market and highlighted the broader attractions of the province.

Since the drone performance teams participated in this event, Khánh Hòa became the first locality in Việt Nam to obtain two Guinness World Records for the largest light display of world wonders and the largest light display of Vietnam’s cultural symbol, the Lạc bird, he pointed out.

If the festival becomes an annual event, it would need to feature something special and unique each year, he added.

The four-day festival attracted more than 660,000 visitors to the city, with over 288,000 staying overnight.

During the 2024 Nha Trang International Light Bay Festival hotels in the city’s downtown reported average room occupancy exceeding 90 per cent.

There were over 50 million live viewers on TV and other media. VNS