Visitors to the festival, which took place on February 8-13 this year, spent around 1,000 guest nights at tourism accommodations there. Occupancy rates at the weekend were over 90%.

Most visitors were Hungarians, but foreign tourists, mainly from Slovakia and Germany, also came to Mohács during the carnival.

The Busó festivities, named for the busós, frightening-looking costumed people wearing wooden masks and big woolly cloaks, were inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009.