Tomorrowland Festival 2026 - Belgium

Tomorrowland is an electronic dance music festival that is regarded to be the largest kind of such in the world, and it is organized annually in the town of Boom (Flanders, Belgium). The festival is hosted by brothers Manu Beers and Michiel Beers and their company We Are One World and each year it is estimated that over 400,000 people representing nearly 200 nationalities come to attend the festival. In 2025, the main stage of Tomorrowland in Belgium was damaged in a fire two days before the festival was to start.

History

The idea of establishing this event was conceived in the early 2000s by brothers Manu and Michiel Beers who had previously worked at the Dutch event promotion company ID&T in the location of an area near the municipality of Boom, Belgium.

The inaugural edition of the festival was entitled Tomorrowland, or “The Land of Tomorrow” in English and was held on 14 August 2005, in the town and municipality of Boom, at the De Schorre Provincial Recreational Area. Its issue was covered by global hit DJs, including Armin van Buuren, David Guetta, and Coone, to name a few.

The Dutch firm ID&T held the festival each year until 2013, when the event promotion firm LiveStyle, located in Los Angeles, declared its purchase of the ID&T. Since then, LiveStyle assumed the role of directing the festival. The Beers brothers also established a company (We Are One World) and foundation (Tomorrowland Foundation) which together with LiveStyle still carry on with the organisation of the festival up to this point.

The event has stages and environments that are surrounded by decorations that make one imagine a magical and fantastical world. The festival in itself has a diverse range of subgenres in and of itself with respect to electronic music. It also has a campsite just outside the festival arena known as DreamVille where the attendees would want to be at a position as near as possible to the festival. DreamVille has various options of accommodation, such as areas to pitch your own tent, up to mansions in larger groups. Moreover, the access to DreamVille is the access to the The Gathering, a pre-festival party, which will be going on Thursday afternoon till later than midnight, and may include DJs on the weekend line-up.

The duration of the festival has been changing over time. The early two editions in 2005 and 2006 took just a day whereas between 2007 and 2010 the event took two days. The festival lasted three days in the period between 2011 and 2013, which spans a complete weekend. Between 2014 and 2019, it grew to two successive weekends, a total of six days. The festival was hosted on three weekends in 2022, the first ever to be nine days long, and was also the first to have more than 600,000 attendees in total.