Everything you need to know about tickets to Boom Festival 2022
Question everything. This is one of the fundamental components of the Boom ethos and why it continues to be an independent event free from sponsorship and commercial promotion.
We have created our own micro-economy to weather the storm of an unpredictable climate. No financial sharks, no government loans, no commercial bail-outs: we want to remain free from that world and so far, our strategy has worked.
So how do we do it? It’s a good question, and in recent times, one we’ve encountered on numerous occasions. So in a world of fractured communication, disinformation and distrust — here we explain the detail and ethical considerations that drive our ticket pricing ideas.
The Covid-19 pandemic has been quite challenging to deal with, we'd like to thank in advance every Boomer for the support. Your endless love and understanding about the ticket issues is an extra motivation to carry on.
Yes. 2020/2021 ticket holders can access the 2022 edition.
Services acquired for 2020/2021 (ex: Boom Bus, Tipis, Cardboard Village), Kids Tickets and Guest Country Tickets are also valid for 2022. With no additional costs.
The Boom Festival ticket sales economic model does not entail any sort of sponsorship. We’re profoundly sensitive to the condition of Boomers, and we have found a solution to help Boomers who wish to resell or purchase tickets.
A third-party platform (TicketSwap) on which you can place your ticket(s) to be purchased by another Boomer, is available from 3 May 2021.
Boom is a totally independent and free from corporate sponsorship festival. It is organised by a tax-paying cultural company settled in a remote region deep in the rural heart of Portugal, southern Europe. The whole Boom organisation encompasses two companies and a non-profit called IdanhaCulta.
It is financed by tickets, bars, accommodation services, and rental of space to shops, restaurants and cafes. These are the funds that allow us to make a considerable investment into the production of the event, to pay off the loan we took to purchase the Boomland, and which helps manifest other ethical projects that we run parallel to the festival. It is due to your support that we can provide a stable job and fee on a monthly basis for 30 people.
To give an example, in 2018 your support via tickets helped Boom to employ 1787 people, invite 709 artists and contribute with a percentage of the revenues to local and international NGOs.
The ticket pricing has been designed to allow the festival to continually evolve. While ethical considerations of the global economy determine the decisions we make, we also need to take account of festival production costs, our need to keep delivering you a unique experience hence the increase on the ticket price in 2022 (the rescheduled Boom 2020 & 2021 edition) compared with 2018.
Current rising costs in Portugal, worldwide and on the festival culture scene have had to be accounted for when we work out how to price the tickets in 2022. Artists, technologies and suppliers are just some components of a fully fledged production facility like Boom.
Boom is not a headliner-centered festival - it is paramount for us to provide Boomers with the most diverse and innovative program all the while securing maximum comfort and proper infrastructures.
Countries with stronger economies and higher output of resources are allocated regular price. This enables more fragile countries to be given discounted ‘friendly price’ tickets. We are sure Boomers from countries with better economies can resonate with this concept.
On the other hand, we design our strategy so as to allow up to 500 people from a ‘guest country’ to join us at Boom for free.
On a separate note, growth is not an indicator of success for us. It means tickets for our 2022 edition will again be limited. This will provide an infrastructure that can cater for every single person within a safe and comfortable environment while maintaining a balance between human presence and the local environment.
Boom Festival production is long term endeavour that requires a group of dedicated people to work the year round. Therefore, our pricing takes into account all the running costs for the gap year in between each Boom - monthly wages for staff, taxes, rents, energy, water, and other expenses that come with running our organisations. This covers Boomland's maintenance costs and the taxes we must pay that you can read below.
For instance, if we were to calculate a daily estimate of the 2022 ticket price, the average price per day for Friendly Price ticket holders is €21.8 and Regular Price at an average of €28.75per Boom-day.
We would like to thank each and everyone of you for supporting Boom Festival. It is due to your ticket funds that we are able to make this dream come true, cooperate with everyone while remaining independent and free from commercial sponsorship.
The stipulated price of every ticket is always subject to tax. In Portugal, these are the main taxes that Boom Festival pays:
VAT
Festival ticket: six per cent
Boom Bus ticket: six per cent
Tipi Camp and Cardboard Tent tickets: 6 per cent
Bars and Restaurants: 13 per cent or 23 per cent (depending on the product).
COMPANY AND STAFF TAXES
Should the company make a profit (which is not always the case - tax called 'IRC'): The state will receive 21 per cent from the profit. An additional tax called 'Derrama Estadual' between three and five per cent is applied to the profits on top of IRC
Staff (tax called 'TSU'): 34.75 per cent per person (23.75 per cent + 11 per cent) for social security
Free lancers (tax called 'TSU'): 10 per cent for social security
Foreign artists (tax called 'IRS'): All artists from abroad Portugal are subject to a tax retention of 25 per cent of the fee
Travel, fuel and accommodation expenses (tax called 'Tributação Autónoma'): 10 per cent
BOOMLAND TAXES
When the Boomland was purchased its property price was subject to a five per cent tax (tax called 'IMT').
Boom Festival is an independent festival solely financed by the revenue generated via ticket sales and services provided during the event. Good Mood is the company which has been producing the festival since the very first edition. Today, two organisations are responsible for Boom Festival:
- Good Mood Lda, which produces Boom Festival
- IdanhaCulta Association, a non-profit entity which manages Boomland and organises the Being Gathering
Both organisations are staffed by several people connected with Boom Festival, and neither comprises elements or members from external corporations.
Below you can find a simplified extract of our oficial financial report, as well as relevant information about IdanhaCulta Association and Good Mood Lda, pertaining to the years 2017 and 2018 and peaking at the times of the Being Gathering 2017 and Boom Festival 2018. In this report we’ve also included data related to parallel projects such as events produced for external entities and consultancy services.
Producing Boom is a two-year long endeavour. Revenue generated in 2018 allows both organisations to run during the gap year between each Boom - in this case, until Boom 2021. This revenue also enables us to employ a monthly average of 35 people all year-round in one of the most disadvantaged regions in the country.
Neither Boom Festival or the Being Gathering benefit from any commercial nor state sponsorship whatsoever.
The full report, delivered to the State yearly, is available online.
By disclosing these results, we hope to provide Boomers with the transparency and respect they so much deserve. Thank you.
(VERSÃO PORTUGUESA)
O Boom Festival é um acontecimento independente que usa as receitas dos bilhetes e do evento para se financiar. É organizado pela empresa Good Mood que produz o festival desde a sua origem. Actualmente o universo Boom Festival é composto pelas seguintes organizações:
- Good Mood Lda: Produção do Boom Festival;
- Associação IdanhaCulta: Entidade sem fins lucrativos que gere a Boomland e organiza o Being Gathering.
Todas estas instituições são compostas por inúmeras pessoas com ligação ao Boom Festival. Nenhuma delas é formada por elementos de corporações externas.
Nesta secção encontram um extracto simplificado do relatório de contas oficial assim como informações relevantes dos anos 2017 e 2018 da Associação IdanhaCulta e da Good Mood Lda. Culminam com as edições do Being Gathering 2017 e do Boom Festival 2018. Ainda constam dados relacionados com projectos paralelos, tais como eventos para terceiros e consultorias.
A produção do Boom compreende um período de dois anos de actividade. As receitas de 2018 permitem a gestão das duas instituições durante o ano seguinte até ao Boom 2021. Possibilitam emprego a um número médio de 35 pessoas todos os meses ao longo do ano numa das regiões mais desfavorecidas de Portugal, assim como inúmeros projectos paralelos.
Quer o Boom Festival quer o Being Gathering não recebem quaisquer patrocínios comerciais ou estatais para a sua realização.
Se quiseres aprofundar o teu conhecimento com dados técnicos podes consultar as contas anuais da Associação IdanhaCulta e da Good Mood Lda entregues ao Estado.
Esta publicação de resultados é norteada pelo espírito de transparência e respeito que todos os Boomers nos merecem. Obrigado(a).
Everything that is generated at Boom is reinvested in the festival, in new ideas and dynamics, people, artists, the land, and the infrastructure required to create from scratch such a manifestation of human potential. The revenues are invested into the production of the festival.
They are used to maintain the organisation working on a daily basis and dozens of people that work throughout the year. Revenues are also channeled into a grassroots initiative we launched, known as the Boom Karuna Project. A huge chunk is also invested into the festival’s environmental program via the Boomland.
On a bureaucratic level, there’s the Portugueselicensing and tax system to deal with too, and due to the fact that Boom Festival is held in Portugal's inland we estimate 20-30 per cent higher costs compared with productions done around the main urban centers.
Note: Ticket sales are subject to an extra fee for ticketing payment charges of the operator.
Did you know that...
If we were to calculate a daily estimate of the 2022 ticket price, the average price per day for Friendly Price ticket holders is €21.8 and Regular Price equals to an average of €28.75 per Boom-day?
We have a Friendly Price for people living in countries with specific economic realities.
Along its more than two decades of history, Boom has applied this non-discriminatory policy of inclusivity, so as to give residents of countries with lower levels of economic indicators the opportunity to experience Boom Festival. In doing so, Boom aims at the democratisation of the access to culture.
Boom Festival’s Friendly ticket prices are based on objective, economical criteria, such as: minimum wage per country; GDP per capita; and purchasing power in countries benefiting from the “Friendly” discount compared with other economic realities.
Friendly Price tickets apply to the following countries and territories:
Portugal
Greece
All of Africa
Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, excluding Australia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Oman, Qatar and United Arab Emirates
Mexico, Caribbean, Central and South America
Central and Eastern Europe: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bielorussia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia / FYROM, Montenegro, Poland, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.
Boom tickets are limited and there are also a limited number of Friendly price tickets. Once Friendly price tickets are sold out, Boomers living in the aforementioned countries and territories will still have access to Regular price tickets.
These tickets can be purchased up until the point they are completely sold out.
GETTING A FRIENDLY PRICE TICKET VIA BOOM AMBASSADOR
Friendly price tickets are non-transferable and only available via Boom Ambassador.
To access this ticket your local Ambassador will require proof of national residency.
Valid legal proof of residence(eg: there are some countries where the residence is on the National Identification Document)
> Tax residence declaration
> Invoice for services related to your residence (electricity, water, etc.) issued on behalf of the Boomer
*Note: Boomers only need to provide ONE of the aforementioned options.
Documents that are not considered:
> Voter Card / Declaration of Residency in the Parish Council
> Car Insurance
If you are elligible for a Friendly Price ticket, and you wish to get a Boom 2022 ticket, you can still do so on the TicketSwap platform. Follow this link to know more.
Regular price tickets are set for people living in all European Union countries (except those mentioned above in the friendly price areas), Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand, USA, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates.
As per tradition, a guest country is invited to Boom each edition. This year, we are delighted to announce that Argentina will be the guest country at Boom 2022!
Guest Country Ticket is available ONLY for Argentine nationals. They are required to show their Boom ambassador proof of Argentinian nationality.
Please note: Boom is a limited capacity event. Guest Country Tickets are limited to 500 people and are Sold Out
Children under the age of 13 years are granted free entrance to the festival. However, considering the very high temperatures, loud noise and high levels of dust, we advise parents not to bring children under the age of three.
You do not need to purchase a Boom Festival ticket for children aged 12 years or younger by 22 July 2022. They will need, however, to be registered on the ticket platform.
You can register your child(ren) on our ticket platform once you've secured your Boom Festival ticket. The registration procedure costs €1.
In cases of children who get lost, our security teams have the tools to quickly relocate parents or guardians and reunite them.
