Barbados’ cultural industry can bring in $1 billion a year, says businessman Tony Hoyos.
But for it to do so, it would have to be properly organised and orchestrated, he told the media launch of Celebration Time Calypso tent at the Plantation Garden Theatre on Thursday night.
Hoyos said the fact that Barbados produced $80 million a year in just six to eight weeks during the Crop Over Festival showed that if concrete action was taken to develop or nourish the cultural industries, then the growth potential could be improved by far.
The businessman, who has spent much time around the cultural industries as a “practitioner, consumer and investor”, said one of the first things needed was a dedicated training facility or a “Fame School”.
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