August 20 Hungarian national holiday events drew record numbers

Organizers have revealed that a series of programs to commemorate the August 20 Hungarian national holiday celebrating Hungary’s statehood attracted a record number of visitors to the capital. Visitors to Budapest had a choice of over 100 programs at more than 20 venues over three days. The celebrations culminated in a fireworks, light and drone display in the evening on Sunday. The “complex visual show” included 34,000 fireworks lighting up the sky from 230 launch points and a light show using more than 1,100 intelligent lights, 61 high-performance laser projectors and another 34 laser devices, they noted. Public television’s broadcast of the fireworks show also generated record ratings. Visitor numbers gave a “significant” boost to tourism in the capital as well as to the turnover of tens of thousands of businesses, the organizers said.