Tourism Secretary: More flights, sailings needed for Carnival

Tourism Sec­re­tary Zor­isha Hack­ett is ap­peal­ing to Caribbean Air­lines for more do­mes­tic flights as the an­tic­i­pa­tion builds for this week­end’s To­ba­go Car­ni­val. Speak­ing to the me­dia on Sun­day af­ter wel­com­ing pas­sen­gers from the in­au­gur­al Toron­to to To­ba­go flight, Hack­ett said the new ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port will be busy this en­tire week as thou­sands ar­rive for the an­nu­al fes­ti­val.

How­ev­er, she be­lieves the event — ex­pect­ed to at­tract 60,000 vis­i­tors — could be even more suc­cess­ful if ad­di­tion­al trans­port be­comes avail­able. “This week we want some more flights on the ground, to get the spon­ta­neous Car­ni­val ba­bies over.

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We have a lot of per­sons, they get the vibe and sud­den­ly want to come over,” she said. Hack­ett said two jets per day would be re­quired to fa­cil­i­tate the heavy traf­fic. She said the lo­gis­tics must be sort­ed out to en­sure vis­i­tors can re­turn home when the Oc­to­ber 30-No­vem­ber 1 fes­ti­val is over.