Episode # 6 - Journeys - The Talk Show - Corey Garrett
hi Sean it's Journeys - The Talk Show with Sean Hall and Brett Callaghan here we have Corey Garrett from the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. - Welcome Corey my chairman is still messaging me unfortunately you know how the entire work goes but it's still going off but thank you very much for having us here at this apple having me here this afternoon as you know the team is backstage supporting me what a pleasure to hear from you from the Barbados Tourism Marketing and congrats to you guys on the JOURNEYS series and in promoting of course the horse racing fraternity and on sports tourism as we were just mentioning talking backstage on on on rails so thank you very much for having me this afternoon no problem it's so great to have the Barbados Tourism of Marketing Inc. on board we love your commercials i might keep it up great work and promoting Barbados to the world and as our listeners listen to our entire show this week and future weeks we're going to be inviting everyone to come to Barbados glad to hear and of course as you know you can get all the information on Barbados by just visiting Visit Barbados.org and we have an amazing Summer Special our Summer campaign currently running so anyone who's currently watching or watching in the next couple of weeks for sure definitely as you see on screen Visit Barbados.org and you can definitely check out our summer savings promotion with up to 40 and even more on savings on on products um on destinations yes wow do you hear that that's a wow that's a wow 40 percent off no i'm saying 40 percent and more in some instances and more in some instances yes please the whole summer the whole summer long wow well summer's just started wouldn't it be great i'm sure there are a lot of people out there thinking what to do with their summers and yes hey come and check out horse racing at the garrison savannah of course there you go you can start with that the darby's coming up pretty soon all those big races for this summer so you have 40 percent and more people call our fans all our fans of journeys this is where you want to come barbados well that's great how about we play this little promo so awesome work you guys are doing that visit barbados.org man what about those views john
well you know as we like to say at btma you know barbados is more than just the beautiful beaches barbados is so much more so that's what we've really been trying to focus on obviously and showing different elements of destination maurice and there's so many elements that we try our hardest sometimes have time to capture all of them but we really know that there are a couple key anchors um that really definitely do promote destination barbados and sports tourism and all of us affiliated on the sports tourism from horse racing to cricket to sailing from rowing to football to rally in and i could be list goes on definitely we understand as a major anchor and drawing people into destination gardens that's awesome sports tourism man that's really key to bring people to barbara just to come for a week stay a while and get your sport on correct correct well and what i must mention to you corey like in all my you know i do a lot of work taking the horses down the beach and thing on on mornings you know and what i'm really observing there are many tourists who come to watch horses swim right there in front of radisson hotel and it seems to be creating a buzz especially on thursdays and on sundays when people know there are more horses are coming is this something like that we could promote more because all everybody tells me no we don't see this anywhere else in the world well what i would like to say to you sean is that it's not a matter if this is something that we could promote this is something that we actively do promote um our plus teams around the world our press team became led by april thomas here in barbados they're actively write articles or have inclusions a mention of that tradition as we call it the horses bathing down at the pebbles beach as we call it i do also believe there's a mention in one of these short stories on the website uh furthermore when several media groups um come into the island i mean i was there just as late as maybe well i can actually release it now um sports illustrated who is currently um hotting up the instagram on the social media with ciara who was shot here in barbados one of the clips that we actually took them to to view uh for some of their social media content which is soon to be released is that entire horse bathing experience down at pebbles beach so we are cognizant of it we do take media there we do promote it um but as you said we would obviously like to work with the principles uh from a product development standpoint and so hope we can really capitalize on it from an experienced standpoint in barbados it would of course take much deeper discussions um you have to obviously understand you know safety obviously as as i mean say we are dealing with animals i mean i was there last night um just at me just just last november like it was just striking my uncle who showed up at the beach with one of his um one of his he said to me the first thing he said he's like corey you've been around these horses long enough you know how these behave you know how to stand you know understand yes exactly so i i mean they're lovely lovely creatures but very powerful creatures and many so i mean yeah a great idea um that we do look to some type of product development in that regard how we can further expose it it happens quite organically right now you don't want to take away those organic developments of it no but you surely want to capture it and promote it in a very safe and valuable way for destination barber so i mean we do have an active product team um led by our chief product development um officer uh marsha ali we do have other tourism entities such as the bti um who is keen to develop products around destination marketers etc um so i do think it's a discussion that we should have or that we should carry forward having um this spectacle so to speak of having the horses bathing in barbados i mean if we look towards the examples and we always have to benchmark against certain things we look at the pigs that swim in in bahamas right yeah they garner and i mean they are simply just pigs I think they have a very key um opportunity right there so I do encourage the fraternity to definitely forward those discussions with relevant parties so we can create more of an experience here in the destination I was speaking to Sean about the other day in our last episode Sean did an interview of a couple of Canadian tourists yes and I said Sean maybe this is our secret because sean interviewed them with the microphone with one hand and was holding a horse so I was like man Sean maybe that horse needs to be in every interview from now on listen that horse has been in every important move I've made so far I met your boss Yens yes the same horse that's his old joshua we were we were walking to the beach and he was kind of lost at the top there by um where juicy patrick used to be asking which direction to go i said follow us this way just follow us and he came and we took pictures of the same horse joshua so joshua was really the star everybody who have you know come into contact with i've had joshua in my hand he just stands there and he's not a nice horse he's pretty mean he knows when the camera is rolling well that's an interesting thing because i've been a jockey for 10 plus years back in my day 20 years ago but i've never seen a horse swimming at the beach and guess what people can come and visit barbados and see that wonderful spectacle you said sean it's on thursday and sunday mornings thursday and sundays are the best times to come you know i tell people not all the time because that's that's how barbados is designed people wear horses wednesday then um then again on saturday so thursday's always a sea day you know but you see horses every day but if you really want to get that vibe because it's really a nice bite to see like 30 or 40 horses in the water one stage thursdays and sundays are the best times to come now what time for our visitors out there is that's where the trouble starts me we are we're supposedly off the beach by 7 30 and we're not very welcome after that time so so i i i don't know you know not everybody likes us down there i must admit but the tourist surely does so that's why that's very sure we definitely have to fuel that discussion and hope we can really develop it into a real authentic product maybe talk to the authorities that maybe the ncc also be involved in the discussion and let southwestern coordination maybe some support with the beach rangers at particular times in the morning et cetera meridian beaches you know all beaches in barbados are public beaches but we can record an awful period of time still have access to horses where you know um everything is at a safe distance there's still a bit of interaction it's still organic so hence why as i said in my in my earlier comments that we really need to we really should uh fuel it as a discussion to really develop it into a real authentic barbarian product with all the powers that be sitting at the table to make it happen well you know i'm so happy that you're going that direction because i would like to add some more because our journey to the beach sometimes is not the best you know cars pass close um you know i i think if we could also get a little more control of traffic even if you put some crossing lakes down there for the horses let people know horses not flashing lights it would help us a lot better and make people um respect we are trying our best to keep the horses from kicking their cars or or not being safe to everybody around us and even not even on straight roads or next to the garden i i always said that we should need some humps up there you know i mean so now i'm speaking to you i'm taking that advantage to you know to see if i could get some help in that direction you know it's not enough i don't have all the answers for you but i mean the mtw is definitely a place to have but what i would say is that out of product part of product development uh which is obviously something that involves branding and signage etc um you know those elements would be possible under a very well designed product because obviously you would need to create awareness and sensitivities correct or be productive to the product horses crossing here or horse viewing available thursdays on saturday mornings between the hours of xyz um i'm sure as part of the product development there will be some sort of signage that is that's definitely erected so maybe that will definitely aid also um yeah those issues that you you're currently having um in that regard yes yes i love that i love what i'm hearing man this is a good comment i know i i i we just have great ideas that we're coming together but we need to see because of course yes great heads are meeting here today well what we also want to do is promote sports tourism so we want to invite all those other team sports athletes we got it all in barbados whether it be qriket beach volleyball uh basketball man you can't play i mean i have i i can show you a post-it note that's simply currently next to me so we're talking from golf to surfing to i mean obviously you have bushy part which is what the only fia certified track in this hemisphere we have the upcoming rally barbados we haven't run barbados we have snailing coming up we have road tennis which is the one of the world's last known indigenous sports and indigenous of course meaning it is homegrown raised born created here in barbados just like rum we have a bodybuilding classic coming up in barbados um we have dressage um on the equestrian tip also we have dressage classics also coming up so marvelous um you know brought a poster the friend of mine so i know that all right so you know barbara we talk about as as as as a events hub we talk about barbados as the capital as the culinary capital but we can also talk about barbados as a home for sports or a hub for sports here in the caribbean because of so many sporting disciplines that go on here in barbados and it's not only from the commercial standpoint or from the spectator standpoint but there's also the capacity for facilitation and training in many of these sports and that's where we are also looking to take its sports tourism product um as we were talking earlier of course we talked about exporting barbadian talent but there's also a great desire and a great opportunity to create talent here in barbados with the expertise um that barbarian that barbados has created um over the years i mean we always hear a prime minister saying barbados punches above its weight and that is also the supporting sporting arena as i said before having some knowledge of the entire you know um racehorsing um network i would have heard uh bret himself these days names and these guys would have campaigned in canada uh patrick et cetera for so long so we know that at the end of the day these guys have reached the greatest feats um in this sport we just have safy joseph junior literally who lives at the hill for me me and his brother all right gather who just competed in the kentucky derby which is one of the world's most prestigious races right we have already punched above our weight in the horse racing category we have already punched above rv uh in so many sporting disciplines and regards so it is time and it is as is with the vision in mind at the btmi that we take and we export this talent but we also create a facilitation for some of this talent to be home grown up for some of the overseas expertise to also come in and help us grow our talent even further so we can even punch heavier above our very small destination correct sean was shared a document with me i think sean you and jonathan jones another ex-jockey barbarian creator in 2014 yes you go ahead sean and i explained it was johnny jones and marsha heinz name but she accused me when it first came back here that we combat this island and we don't give back and this is this is my introduction to the lady and she was giving me a body shot you know i mean so um i quickly made friends with her and you know i mean like but we put our hands together myself johnner and her and we came up with a a a john said a document there that possible racing academy in one of my thoughts on my post-it notes right in front of me also includes creating a racing hub in barbados because that's my that's the exact point i was going to that means opportunities to create racing academies here in barbados we want to create driving academies here in barbados cricket academies here in barbados so that barbados is also known as a center of excellence all right all of these fit strategically into how we are positioning brand barbados from a tourism standpoint and sean came up with this document in 2014 and shared it with me just a few weeks ago and i said sean a new passion and new energy let's try and promote this because if we could build an academy where we could train horsemen i think um robert pierce and the horse charity is already doing that and teaching young jockeys how to respect and learn horsemanship skills um that all come up to becoming apprentice jockeys and have gone overseas so yeah but this is something that you can really start sean yeah but one thing you've got to remember right is that we have over i think what is last count it was 10 Barbadian jockeys who have been champions at different tracks around north america so when you have 10 people that means when you're a champion that means youngsters in that area idealize you you know what i mean and we got those type of men in north america who are idolized by thousands of of canadians and americans already and i think we got to take advantage of that i gotta we gotta take advantage that the garson is the home of champions and i keep saying that it is it's the home of champions safie joseph was from the garrison sir michael stout was from the garrison pacquiao husbands with from the garrison rico world cup ricky boy ricky griffith really quickly thinking you already have me thinking that you know that you guys need to approach her and everyone's had his watching she'll probably toss me for this that you need to approach the turf club and having a champion of champions race held in barbados the champions champion honors champion champion um um horses if possible from around the world there's never been a caribbean challenge and these are the level of events not saying of course that we don't have already which we do a class horse racing here with us um yeah of course but i know there's some plans for some other deliverables in the horse racing portfolio but these are the type of events and discussions that we want to have so that we are the barbados tourism marketing into our pr channels and marketing channels can go and tell these stories to the entire world of course reported by the backline stories do you know barbarous is a known horse racing destination of champion jockey's caught um surfacing among all of these tracks across the caribbean but at the same time we also have the caribbean's most prestigious horoscopes coupled with of course a champions race where all of the international champions seek to come to the caribbean decision to race their horses and it could be a week of events so i'm giving you guys maybe rosette some some homework are some challenges there types of ideas types of mainstream products that we have yeah we would gladly like to take to the world stage and have international partners even on board to support them well corey it was funny we had um hall of famer chantel sutherland on our show a couple weeks back and she has written in a jockey's championship in barbados when was it shawn 2004 or 2005 2005. she rode in barbados and she races with patrick husbands all the time and we invited her on that show just a few weeks ago would she be interested in coming to barbados because we wanted female jockeys to come and compete with our barbarian jockeys and kind of uh have a challenge similar to what you're saying corey but i think you're taking it one step further let's get a champion of champions not just male and female yes yes well there you go gentlemen these seeds have been planted it's been planted planted right here at journeys talk show so that's great well we want to thank you corey again for coming on board um thank you and the barbados tourism market and inc for all your support we would love to have you on board in the coming weeks if you have any new programs one of the things you want to promote you said was the summer savings program correct yes please barbados summersavings.com you can visit the website directly or you can go via our mainstream website which is www.visitbarbitus.org and as i said before there are savings there on accommodations on car rentals or restaurants and a whole lot more 40 and more all available in barbados this summer so we're inviting everyone down to barbados as you said sean there's some exciting horse racing action but there's also crop over coming up of course our annual carnival so to speak and then of course this is one a very unique carnival there is of course rally barbados which is happening in the next couple of weeks there is cricket happening once again at the end of summer the new zealand tour and some one day internationals coming up so barbados is really a lot of action for this summer for events for sporting for just general relaxation to rejuvenate the destination is open we will continue to promote how safe the destination is um in all regards before kobe we were safe destination through covey remain safe and post covet or as i should say at this point in time we continue to maintain those safety levels so we are open for business and we look forward to meeting some new folks here um on destination barbados great excellent great night well thank you once again thank you very much for watching yes great job guys thank you gentlemen thank you very much
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