Tourism Trinidad’s Car­ni­val booth, which was lo­cat­ed in the North Park at the Car­ni­val Vil­lage, Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, was buzzing with ac­tiv­i­ty as over 500 for­eign­ers from as close as Grena­da to as far as Ger­many came here to en­joy T&T Car­ni­val.

The booth, which was set up on Feb­ru­ary 25 and ran un­til March 2 (Car­ni­val Sat­ur­day), wel­comed tourists and en­gaged them in his­to­ry lessons on Trinidad’s sites, at­trac­tions, cul­ture, mu­sic and fes­ti­vals.

Vis­i­tors al­so played ac­tiv­i­ties like Spin-The-Wheel, which af­ford­ed prizes such as lo­cal­ly-made pep­per sauce and oth­er nov­el­ty items em­bla­zoned with the #visit­trinidad lo­go.

Vi­tal in­for­ma­tion was pro­vid­ed on the func­tions of Tourism Trinidad and maps out­lin­ing var­i­ous Car­ni­val routes were dis­trib­uted, along with safe­ty tips and a list of must-see places to the vis­i­tors. The tourism guides and ex­ec­u­tives of Tourism Trinidad have al­so been work­ing round-the-clock to pro­vide sup­port to en­sure a mem­o­rable stay for vis­i­tors.

A sim­i­lar ser­vice was set up at Skin­ner Park in San Fer­nan­do for Kid­dies Car­ni­val on March 3.

“This is just the start of a much broad­er strat­e­gy around brand­ing Trinidad as the ul­ti­mate tourist des­ti­na­tion," man­ag­er Cor­po­rate Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and Stake­hold­er Re­la­tions of Tourism Trinidad Eliz­a­beth Warn­er-Juilen said.

"The in­tent is to at­tract vis­i­tors and mem­bers of the pub­lic to this space to learn about our new com­pa­ny, share in­for­ma­tion and en­sure that all of our vis­it­ing friends en­joy a safe and hap­py Car­ni­val and are en­cour­aged to come again."

She added that feed­back will al­so be col­lat­ed to en­hance the vis­i­tor ex­pe­ri­ence even fur­ther and in­crease ar­rivals for 2020.

"This will play a crit­i­cal role in in­ject­ing much need­ed for­eign ex­change in­to the econ­o­my - a key re­spon­si­bil­i­ty of the com­pa­ny in ad­vanc­ing the sec­tor and pro­mot­ing ed­u­ca­tion and aware­ness of our unique tourism prod­uct,” Warn­er-Julien added.