Planning Events Around Eid and Pohela Boishakh

Two seasons shape the event calendar in Bangladesh more than any other. Eid brings a long holiday, a city that half empties and then refills, and families looking for something to do together. Pohela Boishakh fills the streets with red and white from early morning, and every school, club, brand and cultural group wants a stage. Both are huge opportunities for organizers. Both also punish late planning. Here is how to plan ticketed events around them.

Understand how each holiday moves people

Eid

Eid ul-Fitr and Eid ul-Adha follow the lunar calendar, so their dates move earlier every year and are only confirmed close to the day. Many people in Dhaka travel home for the holiday, so the days right around Eid can be quiet in the city while the days after see a burst of outings, reunions, concerts and family shows. During Ramadan, evening events shift later, after iftar and taraweeh.

What this means for you:

• Plan for a date range, not a single fixed date, until the holiday is confirmed.

• Think about where your audience will be. A Dhaka event on the first day of Eid competes with the trip home.

• For Ramadan events, set gate times that respect iftar.

Pohela Boishakh

Pohela Boishakh falls on 14 April in Bangladesh. The day starts early, with morning programmes and processions, and the city is crowded and slow to move through. Daytime cultural programmes, fairs and evening concerts all compete for the same audience on the same day.

What this means for you:

• Pick your slot carefully. A morning programme and an evening concert are different products.

• Plan entry for heavy crowds and slow traffic. People will arrive late and all at once.

• Families and groups buy together, so make group buying easy.

Work backwards from the day

Holiday events sell on a compressed timeline. People decide late, and the last days before the holiday are noisy with offers. A simple plan:

• Six to eight weeks out: lock the venue, the line-up and the ticket tiers. Set up the event on Quicket as a draft.

• Four weeks out: open a presale or early bird tier for your followers.

• Two weeks out: open the public sale and push hard on social.

• The final week: last call messaging, then close sales before the day so your gate list is final.

Let automations run the calendar for you

The problem with holiday planning is that the key moments fall when your team is busy or on leave. Quicket's event automations let you schedule the changes ahead of time instead of doing them by hand:

• Publish the event or open registration at a set time.

• Change a ticket price at a set time, for example when the early bird ends.

• Show or hide a ticket category or a combo on a schedule.

• Send an event update to ticket holders at a time relative to the event start, such as the evening before.

There are ready-made templates for a presale before the public sale, a tiered on-sale and a last call, which fit a holiday campaign well. Set them up once and the event follows the plan even if you are travelling home for Eid yourself.

Sell to families and groups

Holiday events are group outings. Two features help here.

• Combo tickets. Bundle several tickets, for example two adult and two child tickets, at one price. Each person still gets their own ticket.

• Multi-day events. If your fair or festival runs across several days of the holiday, you can set it up as one event with dated sessions, and copy ticket types to each date.

We explain both in team registration and combo tickets, explained.

Keep ticket holders informed

Holiday plans change. Venues shift, gates open late, traffic stops everything. With event updates you can email ticket holders, and optionally send SMS, and target them by ticket type. You can see delivery logs per recipient, so you know the message went out. Use this for the boring but important details: gate time, which entrance to use, what to bring.

Run a smooth gate on a crowded day

On Pohela Boishakh in particular, everyone arrives at once. Every Quicket ticket is a QR code, and your staff scan with the Quicket web scanner on their phones. Add more scanner staff than you think you need, and give each entrance its own team. A ticket that has already been scanned is flagged with when and by whom, so screenshots shared in group chats do not get extra people in.

Let the right people help

Holidays are when your team is stretched. In your organization settings you can add members with roles that match what they do, such as box office and operations, finance, or marketing, and limit members to specific events. A volunteer who only scans tickets does not need to see your revenue.

A quick holiday checklist

• Date range planned, venue and slot chosen with travel and crowds in mind.

• Ticket tiers, combos and dates set up as a draft.

• Presale, price change and last call scheduled with automations.

• Event update scheduled for the day before.

• Extra scanner staff added for each entrance.

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