Category: Interesting Jurisdictions

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

Event Driven Tourism

Last week the Barbados Advocate carried a story about the Barbados Tourism Authority (the BTA) being allocated BD$ 92 million or US$46 million for the

Taking Advantage of our Carnival

Many of us would remember carnival 2011 as the return of Machel Montano.  In terms of the debate about soca meeting politics, I am personally

A Riot of Colour and Noise

Last week we hosted a couple of coaches from the Dominican Republic(DR) who were here for the Caribbean Area International Schools SportsAssociation (CAISSA) boy’s Basketball

A Letter to Tourism Students

Well I know we are in the throws of the bacchanal season “when men lose their reason; and most of us just want to wine

It’s Carnival Time Again

A couple weeks ago, I was on a flight to Mexico City and as usual, I ended up chatting with the person next to me. 

Tourism Will Rise

Many tourism stakeholders here in Trinidad and Tobago have a pessimistic outlook.  Is it that stakeholders have good reason to be frustrated?  Firstly, last September

Let the Airline Wars Begin!

Last October, Redjet launched in Barbados.  Then, everything just went quiet.  As always, in the absence of official information, the rumors started.  Were they just