A to­tal of 148 per­sons from key tourism en­ti­ties and stake­hold­ers in Trinidad have been giv­en ad­di­tion­al train­ing as part of over­all ca­pac­i­ty build­ing ini­tia­tives to en­sure a health­i­er and safer Car­ni­val 2025.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), the tourism spe­cial­ists par­tic­i­pat­ed in CARPHA’s “Pre­ven­tion and Con­trol of In­fec­tious Dis­eases dur­ing Mass Gath­er­ings” train­ing on Feb­ru­ary 18, 2025, in prepa­ra­tion for Car­ni­val 2025.

CARPHA says the par­tic­i­pants were from tourism and hos­pi­tal­i­ty sec­tors, in­clud­ing ac­com­mo­da­tions, food and bev­er­ages, trans­porta­tion providers, tour guides, tour op­er­a­tors and or­gan­i­sa­tions as­so­ci­at­ed with events such as pro­mot­ers and mas bands.