Today's Questions:
- Can Carnival become a viable, sustainable and year-round industry?
- What can be done by the government to create a favorable and enabling environment for investment in Carnival?
- What can artists and organizers do to promote and export carnival culture internationally for a positive return on investment?
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The government can put more resources into the Carnival industry by advertising internationally through the Ministry of Tourism.
The artistes can work along with Carnival committees and create a Carnival bandwagon and travel to various countries to promote and teach other Countries about carnival with using the country's history to create a new type of carnival. These countries can pay for these services by the Trinidad and Tobago Bandwagon. The artistes would be able to showcase their talent to world as mini Carnivals would held in those countries to show how Carnival is done in Trinidad and Tobago.
I believe that the government should create centers all around the country that deals with carnival and have persons there to educate those who wish to learn more. Also I believe that it should be a part of the schooling syllabus which will help the future generation to have a grasp knowledge of carnival.
Artists and organizers can do tours in target countries where they would expect to get response to promote and export carnival culture internationally for a positive return on investment. Also they can do some advertising in ways such as through the internet and even popular cable stations.
The government needs to make investments that will allow people to be educated about carnival through various programs.
Artists and organizers can promote and export carnival internationally by getting the winners of our carnival celebration involved in other countries carnival, so that we will showcase our creativity.
Each county can have specialty cottage industries geared toward carnival which can make each county a tourist destination. Ever notice how America markets each state as a tourist destination? Well, we can do that too if we take our people skills and national pride to heart, to government and to the bank. Why should we be wearing “baseball” caps depicting American sport when we should be wearing cricket caps depicting west indies cricket, for example.
We have to revolutionize our national thinking, be more openminded to a lot of caribbean human issues that we have been brainwashed by colonialism to scorn.
We have sooo many cultures represented in this tiny country but we don't know how to really appreciate them, package and market them to the world and literally seduce the world to monetarily and culturally spend time with us. Let's at least try. submitted by Shelley-Ann Thompson.
Productivity will decrease so badly if this happens. YOu know we trinis will do any and everything for a 'lime'.
The government can only do so much but can advertise more as well as get crime under control. To encourage investors crime must be curtailed. As someone said earlier we can also start with the schools and there are some schools that encourage calypso and pan, just not enough. It can also be noted that the lyrics should be more than jump up and wave or about wining. I especially enjoy the extempo and social/political commentry, however only Trinbagonians and others in the Caribbean and maybe friends who have come to know our culture appreciate this as it realtes to us in the Caribbean.
Many Caribbean people who live abroad look forward to their carnival (Miami, Toronto etc.)as well as the artistes that perform (Machel, Iwer etc.) This shows some degree of partiotism and incentives from the government can push it further.
Finally, Peter Minshall and Mc Farlane are men who have proper themes and when their art form goes international more should be said and done about them and sweet T and T and not kept as a secret.
1. convince local business leaders with Business executive plans to set up local costumes industries that would benefit the economy.
2.Put forward plans to reduce import taxes on all costumes materials.
3.Develop a academy for learners who wants to become teachers in the future.
4. Convert in into a academic program and make it a part of the primary and secondary schools curriculum.
5. Offer scholarships to students who wants to pursue certificate in pan at UWI.
They need to return a small amount back to the economy through scholarship programs,develop the content of the music so that it could have a strong impact on the people cognitive, so that it could become part of the culture and even pass down to their generation and work together with one ideology about its future.
Also imagine just what might happen if the government have to contribute more than $100 million dollars to carnival. This cannot be done if money is not being generated from this industry. Tourism is a vital tool in Carnival all over the Caribbean. Tourists visit to see Carnival and of course they spend. In Trinidad and Tobago, however, there is not enough tourism activity to support Carnival, much less all year.
The rarity of the big events around Carnival time is what gives Carnival its attraction and excitement and that is what tourists want to see.
Throughout the year, Carnival can be promoted outside of Trinidad in magazines and brochures through the tourism industry which can be market more widely. Local artiste can also produce high quality music videos that can be played on Caribbean channels and possibly even BET and MTV.
Instead of giving away 2 million. The Government should invest in marketing schemes which will place Carnival on the map. Our Artists should also present Carnival as an event that represents our rich and diverse culture
Artists and organizers need to educate the people about how it began and hold events to show investors what carnival was and what it is today like the mas.
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