It is es­ti­mat­ed that dur­ing the up­com­ing Car­ni­val long week­end, the Mara­cas Beach Fa­cil­i­ty will at­tract ap­prox­i­mate­ly 15,000 vis­i­tors.

Yes­ter­day, Min­is­ter of Tourism, Cul­ture and the Arts, Ran­dall Mitchell, con­duct­ed a site vis­it to the Mara­cas Beach fa­cil­i­ty to as­sess its readi­ness for vis­i­tors over the 2025 Car­ni­val long week­end.

The min­istry said the site vis­it was a part of the Gov­ern­ment’s broad­er ef­forts to en­sure that var­i­ous sites and at­trac­tions are equipped and op­er­a­tional to pro­vide an ex­cep­tion­al tourism ex­pe­ri­ence dur­ing this sea­son.

Ac­com­pa­nied by rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of T&T (UDe­COTT), Mitchell un­der­scored the Min­istry’s re­spon­si­bil­i­ty of gen­er­at­ing the best guest ex­pe­ri­ence, while re­in­forc­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment.

In this re­gard, the vis­it pro­vid­ed an op­por­tu­ni­ty to re­view the works un­der­tak­en, via the Fa­cil­i­ties Man­age­ment Con­tract (FMC) be­tween the Min­istry and UDe­COTT, a news re­lease from the Min­istry of Tourism, Cul­ture and the Arts stat­ed.

The Mara­cas Beach Fa­cil­i­ty has been un­der­go­ing a num­ber of nec­es­sary up­grades with the Min­istry’s com­mit­ment to pro­vid­ing safe and mem­o­rable ex­pe­ri­ences.

The Min­istry has over­seen the es­tab­lish­ment of two tem­po­rary life­guard struc­tures in ad­di­tion to the ex­ist­ing fa­cil­i­ties.

These tem­po­rary struc­tures were strate­gi­cal­ly placed at key lo­ca­tions along the beach, to pro­vide in­creased cov­er­age as well as to en­hance the over­all safe­ty of the area, par­tic­u­lar­ly dur­ing peak vis­i­ta­tion times, ac­cord­ing to the min­istry.

Fur­ther to the as­sess­ment of the fa­cil­i­ty, the min­is­ter ob­served key main­te­nance and in­fra­struc­tur­al im­prove­ments aimed at ad­dress­ing long­stand­ing con­cerns. Oth­er no­table im­prove­ments were those of ven­dor booths, im­prove­ments to wash­rooms and chang­ing fa­cil­i­ties, and en­hanced ac­ces­si­bil­i­ty for dif­fer­ent­ly abled per­sons.

Mitchell high­light­ed that the on­go­ing ef­forts at the Mara­cas Beach fa­cil­i­ty align with the min­istry’s ex­pand­ed per­spec­tive of en­sur­ing that T&T’s nat­ur­al and cul­tur­al at­trac­tions re­main glob­al­ly com­pet­i­tive.

“This year’s Car­ni­val sea­son has demon­strat­ed the grow­ing in­ter­na­tion­al ap­peal of our lo­cal cul­ture. As we con­tin­ue to wel­come thou­sands of vis­i­tors to our shores, it is vi­tal that one of our most icon­ic lo­ca­tions, Mara­cas Beach, re­flects the best of what Trinidad and To­ba­go has to of­fer. In this way, we are en­sur­ing that Mara­cas Beach re­mains a hall­mark of our tourism land­scape,” said Mitchell.

With con­tin­ued in­vest­ment in in­fra­struc­ture, se­cu­ri­ty, and en­vi­ron­men­tal con­ser­va­tion, the Min­istry of Tourism, Cul­ture, and the Arts said it re­mains ded­i­cat­ed in its ef­forts to en­sure that t coun­try’s sites and at­trac­tions are part of our in­com­pa­ra­ble tourism of­fer­ings.