Dream Weekend applies to gov’t to host ‘bubble event’

Dream Entertainment, the owners and operators of the popular Dream Weekend Party Festival, says it has submitted an application and plan to the Government to host its flagship Dream Weekend event this summer.

Dream wants to host the weekend party series in Negril from August 5 - 9.

The application follows the government's announcement of the phased reopening of the event industry for this summer.

Dream says it has conceptualised a “bubble event” approach to ensure safety and compliance.

“All patrons and staff attending Dream Weekend 2021 will need to be either fully vaccinated or pre-tested, and prove to be negative, for COVID-19 before being allowed to get an event armband,” said chairman of Dream Entertainment, Kamal Bankay, in a statement today.

“All hotels and venues for patrons and staff will be on the resilient corridor. The incredible success of the tourism industry's resilient corridor has shown, day-in-day-out over the past 13 months, to be a perfect example of protocols facilitating the safe reopening of a sector,” Bankay added.

And Scott Dunn, Managing Director of Dream Entertainment, argued that the company is uniquely positioned to deliver an integrated health and safety plan to ensure a safe environment given its longstanding event planning and logistics experience.

“Dream Weekend's large international patronage comes from the same tourist markets that have been driving the record-breaking recovery our tourism sector is now seeing. These markets have achieved majority vaccinated populations and those people are ready to travel and enjoy the reopening of the world,” Dunn remarked.

“Dream is committed to working with all the Government Ministries and agencies to use Dream Weekend 2021 as a pilot event for a safe re-opening. The majority of the patrons attending will need to be tested to leave Jamaica and thus the efficacy of the plans and protocols will be evaluated and can be replicated or tweaked for future large events,” noted Bankay.

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