May 2011

The Future of our Carnival

The website panonthenet.com last week advertised a Symposium to Examine Carnival’s Creative and Commercial Inputs.  The symposium hoped to address the question of “Trinidad and Tobago masquerade’s traditional creativity and what presence it commands in the highly commercialized 21st century look of the festival today”.  It was scheduled to take place on March 24th at

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Lets Raise the Level of Debate in Tourism

Two things got me thinking last week.  Firstly, I was at a meeting at which some government programs were being discussed.  Someone make the point that hoteliers were having problems recruiting workers because social programs such as CEPEP were attracting available workers.  Secondly, I have been following some online discussions about the tourism industry and

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A Strategic Plan for Tourism

On Tuesday 19th of April, something called Tourism TV was launched.  Specifically, a tourism breakfast seminar was streamed over the internet.  It was hosted by our Ministry of Tourism at the Leon Agostini Conference Hall, Chamber Building, Columbus Circle, Westmoorings.  Unfortunately I was in St Kitts at the time but I was looking forward to logging on

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