Sziget was forced to cancel its main Sziget
Festival, which routinely draws several hundred thousand
visitors to an island in the River Danube in Budapest, this year
and in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
"We are preparing for the 2022 Sziget (festival) with great
enthusiasm, with a programme that is worthy of a 'grand
comeback' after a long break," Tamas Kadar, Sziget's chief
organiser, said in a statement.
The lineup next August during the week-long festival includes
the band Kings of Leon from the United States, Arctic Monkeys,
Dua Lipa, Bastille and Lewis Capaldi from Britain, and Belgium's
Stromae.
The festivals staged by the company, in which U.S.-based private
equity firm Providence Equity Partners bought a 70% stake in
2017, have been a huge tourist draw to Hungary, where the
tourism industry accounts for more than a tenth of economic
output.
(Reporting by Krisztina Than, editing by Ed Osmond)
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