Tickets Info

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 dozens of people.

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 2023 compared with 2022. 

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 2023. 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 2023 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 and on which you can know more about below.

For instance, if we were to calculate a daily estimate of the 2023 ticket price, the average price per day for Friendly Price ticket holders is €25 and Regular Price at an average of €34.37 per 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: 6 per cent 
   
• Boom Bus ticket: 6 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 3 and 5 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 state service
   
• Free lancers (tax called 'TSU'): 10 per cent for social security state service
   
• 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 5 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

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. 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.

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 Portuguese licensing 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.

We have a Friendly Price for people living in countries with specific economic realities.

Along its more than 25 years of history, Boom has applied this 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.

We source this information on the websites of Eurostat, UNDP, Statista and Pordata. 

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 is 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. 

Ambassador tickets become available on 24 October 2022. 

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

• 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;
   
• Online tickets become available on 31 October 2022 at 09:00 Portuguese Continental time. Follow this link to get your ticket.
   
• Contrary to previous editions, for Boom 2023 only Regular Price tickets will be available only online, as they will not be made available via Boom Ambassadors. 
   
• Each Boomer can get up to five tickets. 
   
• To get a Boom ticket, Boomers must provide:
  • First and last name
  • Date of Birth
  • Gender
  • Email
  • Country of Residence
  • Country of Birth

• As per tradition, a guest country is invited to Boom each edition. In 2023, 500 free tickets are available for people with passport and proof of residency from the following countries: Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe.
   
• Guest tickets are available at Boom Ambassadors. Check the full list here.
   
• Please note: Boom is a limited capacity event, meaning that Guest Country Tickets are limited.

• 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 20 July 2023. 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.

• If you're bringing your child(ren) to Boom, please make sure to register them on our platform.
   
• Kids tickets can take up to one week to be processed. Only then will you receive a Kids ticket with a valid Boomer ID. 
   
• To get services for kids - such as the Boom Bus - you first need to receive the ticket with your kid's Boomer ID.