Streets Of The World Trinidad And Tobago
The Chairman of MovieTowne, is working on a mega project that will cost over $1 billion dollars that will attract tourists all over the world.
Derek Chin wants to take cultures from around the world and create a street after them. "There would be a Street of Mumbai, a Street of Hong Kong, a Street of the Middle East, a Street of Africa, and so on.
There would be a fashion street for women. There would be a mini-carnival street, which (Carnival bandleader Brian) McFarlane would be involved in. These streets would be thematic streets." There would be additional attractions, like horse and buggy. "Maybe from the (Queen's Park) Savannah through Woodbrook straight to the Streets of the World, tourists would travel on them."
Chin also has plans to develop a Carnival museum. "In 2011, what have we done with Carnival? We are still building a Grandstand in 2011. What is the legacy of Carnival? The answer to that is nothing. Let's build a Carnival museum in wax. Bring them out and show the world all the eras of Carnival." He said a tourists coming off a ship could spend two hours and spend US$50 looking at T&T's Carnival.
He wants the Streets of the World project to be an entertainment mecca that would draw tourists from all over. "We are going to create this little mecca, so there would be MovieTowne, Streets of the World, Carnival and everything else in one. We will take T&T and make it a great tourist destination. "In the rest of the Caribbean, you see sailing, cricket and other things. Yet in T&T, we are not selling the country.
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