Apart from the new participants, this year's festival will see pyrotechnic teams from Finland, France, Italy, Poland, and host Da Nang-Viet Nam.

The performances will take place in 5 nights (including 4 qualifying nights and a finale night) in the Han River port area, with a grandstand size of about 17,000 seats.

Each team's performance time should be around 20 minutes, according to the organizers.

Da Nang is the only locality in Viet Nam to have hosted a fireworks festival, making it a magnet for the best fireworks producers from around the world each year since 2008. It has been building a "Fireworks Festival City" reputation to promote it as a top destination in central Viet Nam and Asia.

The DIFF has helped the city win recognition as Asia's Leading Festival & Event Destination in 2016 and 2022 by the World Travel Awards.

The total number of visitors to the central beach city of Da Nang in 2023 is estimated to exceed 7.4 million, doubling the figure in 2022 and equivalent to 93 percent of the figure in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, the municipal Department of Tourism has reported.

Of them, the total number of international visitors is estimated to reach more than 2 million, a four-fold increase year-on-year and equivalent to 62 percent of the figure in 2019.