Global Tours, US Embassy bringing Miami culture to Guyana with exclusive event

Guyanese who had once only dreamed of experiencing the vibrant culture of Miami are now in for an exciting opportunity, Global Tours and Travel having teamed up with the US Embassy to bring to Guyana an engaging event titled “What Happens in Miami”.
In relation to this exciting event, this newscast spoke with Chief Executive Officer of Global Tours and Travel, Waynewright Orderson, who shared insights into the origins and vision behind “What Happens in Miami”.
Using the importance of exposure as the base of his discussion, he mentioned that the main idea of the event is for persons to get a first-hand understanding of American culture.
“The whole thing about this event is to introduce Guyanese travellers to various cultures around the world. This one is specifically focused on American culture, and will feature the foods, the drinks, the music, the dance, and other cultural activities of the United States. The whole concept is to give Guyanese travellers, and even expatriates living in Guyana, the opportunity to get a taste of the United States,” Orderson highlighted.

This event has a foundation of diplomacy; thus, he highlighted, the US Ambassador supports this vision to promote American culture within Guyana.
“So, it’s part of a cultural diplomacy initiative that even the ambassador is in favour of. We’re assisting her with getting out the message of what America is. We’ll be trying the traditional foods of the USA which we don’t normally have access to here, things like apple pie and, you know, corn dogs and that sort of thing,” he detailed.
Apart from that aspect of American food, American cultured foods and American games would also be showcased.
“Alongside the food, there’ll be another section (which) we call the chill zone, where people will be able to throw an American football, learn how to do that, learn a bit more about baseball, and we even have special cigars that Americans use that they import from the Dominican Republic. We will have those available for sampling,” Orderson has said.
Orderson is the person who had successfully spearheaded the Fiesta Cubana event held in Guyana earlier this year. He emphasized that “What Happens in Miami” is not just a celebration of American culture, but also a valuable opportunity for attendees to learn more about the visa application process.

“So, we’re paying a lot of attention to promoting Destination USA. The embassy will be right there to give information and advice on consular services: how to go about applying, and what the prerequisites are. But apart from that, the booth that will be promoting the destinations will have a lot of information about the various destinations that people may want to try,” he explained. “Food won’t be the only highlight of this cultural event, but also we’re paying a lot of attention to promoting Destination USA because our company offers tours, complete package tours, to a number of these destinations.”
To add to the extravaganza, the CEO relayed, the event would not be limited solely to Miami culture, but would have aspects of other cultures from ‘America’.
“So, it’s not just purely ‘American’, but you have Latin American; you have immigrants from all over, including Guyana, that live and form part of the culture of the United States. So, our cultural programme will be a diverse programme, where we’ll have Guyanese performers, we’ll have Latin American performers, and you’ll have other persons from the US performing at the event,” he divulged.
Meanwhile Consultant of this event, Wendy Denanath, relayed why Guyanese should attend the event.
“It is a fact that we Guyanese like fun…,” she explained. “Persons who attended the last event, especially the Fiesta Latino that we had in August, realized that it was a fun event, because they got to engage, see and experience a part of the Latin culture…
“I personally enjoyed the music and the dance, and from what we’re going to promote this time, (it’s) the music, and Guyanese were affiliated with the rap, the R&B, every kind of American music that we’re accustomed to…,” she explained.
“You can dance, you can partake. As I said, just come out; it’s going to be fun, and it’s family-friendly,” she declared.