“The most brilliant moment of Keukenhof 2020 is coming, let's enjoy the flowers online together” - This is the introduction by Bart Siemerink, Managing Director of Keukenhof Flower Festival, in the Keukenhof open virtueel Clip.
The Flower Festival management board has come up with the idea of making online clips to introduce the flower season to visitors: “If visitors cannot come in person, we will bring the Keukenhof Flower Festival 2020 to your home”
The Keukenhof Tulip Festival is one of the attractions for tourists visiting the Netherlands. Keukenhof covers an area of up to 32 hectares, where more than 7 million tulip bushes of all colors and species are planted. During the blooming season, this place turns into a giant, beautiful flower carpet. Every year at this time, the garden opens its doors to welcome hundreds of thousands of visitors to come and see the flowers and take pictures.
This year, the mild winter and warm spring sunshine have made the tulips bloom early, but due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic, the flower garden cannot open to visitors. The Flower Festival management board has come up with a way to create online clips to introduce the flower season to visitors: "If visitors cannot come in person, we will bring the Keukenhof Flower Festival 2020 to your home." Director Bart Siemerink has become a live guide at the garden.
Viewers can support the Flower Festival by watching the official clips of Keukenhof 2020 via social networking sites such as: Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Although they cannot see the flowers with their own eyes like every year, visitors will still have their own joy when viewing the flowers through clips, being introduced to the proud numbers that the flower festival has achieved in previous years.
Similar to the Keukenhof Flower Festival in the Netherlands, the Belgians also have the Hallerbos Flower Festival - Bluebell Forest every April. This flower festival takes place in a beautiful forest on the outskirts of Brussels. Bluebell carpets blooming under the canopy of ancient trees create a rare peaceful space, an occasion that tourists and photographers cannot miss. However, this year, people can only see the bluebells through photos and films because the forest does not welcome visitors directly.
Up to now, the Netherlands and Belgium have closed most tourist attractions since the beginning of March due to the Covid-19 epidemic. Many types of flowers prepared for festivals or flower markets are sent to hospitals to give to doctors and nurses or sent to the elderly in nursing homes. This is considered a practical and beautiful action for the arduous fight against Covid-19 in Europe.
