"It's beyond festival"

Tomorrowland

Tomorrowland is an electronic dance music festival held in Boom, Belgium. Tomorrowland was first held in 2005 and has since become one of the world's largest and most notable music festivals. It now stretches over 2 weekends and it usually sells out in minutes. It will start in mid of July every year. There are different types of stage according to genre of the music. Of course the mainstage is the biggest stage and most crowded place all time.Tomorrowland has also organized Unite with Tomorrowland events in other countries, which serve as a satellite link to the main event in Belgium featuring live streams from the festival with synchronized effects, joined by in-person headliners. Unite with Tomorrowland currently operates in the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Spain, Lebanon, Taiwan, Malta, South Korea, and Israel.
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The first day gathering.

"It's beyond a festival," Armin van Buuren once told CNBC, "it's a music festival combined with a theme park combined with a food festival combined with a cultural event."

The maximum daily capacity is 70,000, which gives people enough space to dance, walk and move around the festival comfortably.

Just over half the festival’s audience is from Belgium, and the presale for Belgians starts one hour before the general onsale for the rest of the world. "We have a lot of people coming from Australia, around 4,000 per weekend, and then lots from the UK, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain and then South America and India. Now, we’re also seeing a lot of people coming from China," the festival's press coordinator Debby Wilmsen told Pollstar.

Some 38,000 visitors per weekend stay at the festival's camping site Dream Ville, which is the size of 128 soccer pitches and launches with its own dedicated welcoming event called "The Gathering" on the Thursday before the actual event. 32.000 festivalgoers travel via so-called Global Journey travel packages, which include flights, buses, trains and/or hotels. Brussels Airlines is Tomorrowland's partner airline, and boasts a custom-designed Tomorrowland plane. According to Wilmsen, 240 flights from 83 different airports bring in some 11,000 people. This year, official Tomorrowland gate parties are going to get travellers hyped at 24 airport gates around the world.

This year's lineup includes Carl Cox, Charlotte de Witte, who will be hosting her own stage, San Holo, Oliver Heldens, Hardwell, Axwell/Ingrosso and Steve Aoki -- and that's just a glimpse at the first day.

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Armin Van Buuren perfoming at the mainstages.



Like each year, the main stage will be completely redesigned. The festival’s in-house creative team starts designing each year’s event in September in consultation with the production team. All materials are stored in a warehouse located in a village next to Boom, next to a large greenfield full of containers, filled with more materials. "Every year we try to reuse things, so we don’t have to throw them away. Sometimes you will see items from a main stage from three years ago on another stage," Wilmsen explained.
Some of the elements used at Tomorrowland Belgium, and its no longer existing offshoots in Brazil or the U.S., will also make their way into the festival’s first winter edition, which is scheduled for March 13-15, 2019, in Alpe d’Huez, France. The makers say it's going to be a totally new concept.

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2017 mainstages



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2018 mainstages
Sources: https://www.pollstar.com/article/a-look-inside-tomorrowland



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