Trinidad Carnival

T'S MARDI GRAS!!!!! Yes, New Orleans' famous Carnival season is this years' never-ending party and you're invited. Mardi Gras, famous for its colorful and cultural parades, is an experience you can't go any longer w/out! The Streets are packed with both tourists and Native Louisianans as they celebrate Mardi Gras in full color and sound. . The Huge Parades come flashing down the street we fresh music, an explosion of lights, and spectacular floats. Everyone is having a great time, enjoying the festivities of the parade. So you're new to Mardi Gras, but don't want to act like it? Here in brief, are the basic facts about Americas' greatest party.

Mardi Gras is a wonderful holiday that attracted everyone from the country to come to the city, even though the holiday was not from New Orleans. Mardi Gras

Trends have shifted in the cruising industry towards the 45-60 year old age group. As this age group grows in population, Carnival can take advantage of the economies of scale and offer them the best prices.

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In 1703, Jean Baptists Le Moyne Sieur de Bienville lead an expedition throughout the lower region of North America territory, when he settled in what is modern-day Mobile, Alabama to celebrate the first known celebrated Mardi Gras event. Mardi Gras was not commemorated in New Orleans until the 1930s which was about twelve yeas after the city was founded. For a fifty year period in time, New Orleans did not celebrate Mardi Gras as a carnival, but rather through social balls influenced by Louisiana’s governor in the early 1940s, Marquis de Vaudreuil. The first reference of Mardi Gras in carnival style came in 1781, when information surfaced of carnival organization forming in New Orleans. By 1830s, the carnival style became in grained into the holiday’s traditions. In 1873, floats for New Orleans Mardi Gras were completely made in the native instead of across seas in France. In 1875, Governor Warmoth recognized Mardi Gras as an official holiday in Louisiana and from still is to this today. New Orleans’s Mardi Gras has an I testing history, however tourists to the city usually are unaware of the the complete origins story of the carnival and miss the understanding of why the holiday is important to natives. Most tourists tend to be least aware about the significance of religion to Mardi Gras’s culture in New

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Central Idea: Festival culture has transformed into a global phenomenon that began in the 50s-60s.

While more and more visitors crowd into the Notting Hill Carnival (see Table 1), it’s not only useful to develop its societal impact through education and the improvement policy of better racial harmony (ibid), but also promote its economic

With a variety of activities from rock climbing, pools, and casinos, Carnival trips have activities for everyone. Additionally, Carnival recognized the shift in cruise demographics from the start. In the 1970s, cruisers were generally older, however, there was a growing trend of young singles and young families taking cruises. Carnival developed cruises from the start with these new customers in mind.

Carnival designed seasonal cruises that sail to different destinations. The themes chosen are based on the locations the ship will be travelling to. Also, buffet options are available in order to provide a variety of food options for the customers and avoid cultural preferences.

Global social changes have also affected the way that Carnival Cruise Lines operates as well. As the global economy turns downward, the cruise industry continues to thrive (Global Demand for Vacation Cruises to Surge, 2012). This is due in part to the changes that they cruise lines have made. Cruises are now marketed as “get-aways from

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Ultra Music Festival (UMF) is a yearly open air electronic music celebration that happens in March in the city of Miami, Florida, United States (DURAN, 2013).In this report I have analysed about the ultra-Miami festival event in USA and what is behind the success of the event. Events rarely succeed or fail it is totally depending on the scheduling and who all are the stakeholders are supporting the particular event. For a successful event there are several potential goals to satisfy and a plethora of stakeholders to involve (Presenza, 2012). Festivals are mostly unique in the events sector how the stakeholders are involved in the events. Media is mainly involved in a group way in television and