Thursday, March 28, 2024

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Flights have been arriving full, small hotels owners are smiling and the international media are here.
That’s the word from various stakeholders as the hype continues for Rihanna’s LOUD concert which more than 25 000 fans are expected to attend at Kensington Oval at 7:30 p.m.
Director of marketing and sales at the Barbados Tourism Authority (BTA) Avril Byer said yesterday that there were about 25 international media representatives who had flown in from all the major markets of Brazil, Europe, Britain, Caribbean, United States and Canada.
Byer noted that international media such as AP, which had opted not to come, had secured the services of Barbadian “on the ground media” to cover the event for them.
Read the full stroy in today’s WEEKEND NATION.

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