The 2021 Sands Shopping Carnival at The Venetian Macao’s Cotai Expo starts today and will run until Sunday, Sands China said in a statement yesterday.
According to the statement, the free-admission carnival has over 560 retail booths, including some of the best deals in town, as well as international-cuisine food court with eco-friendly tableware. The statement said that there will also be games and a play area for kids featuring inflatable slides, game booths, sports games. On the side of the fun, there will also be a karaoke contest and lucky draw.
The statement noted that the 21,000-square-metre carnival is divided into nine zones: Household Products, Parenting and Family, Gourmet, BNU Presents: Food Court, Sands Retailers, Cultural & Creative, Green Lifestyle, Bank of Communications presents: “Play and Fun” Kids Area, and Macau Original IP.
The statement introduced two of the new zones: the Green Lifestyle Zone that sells eco-friendly products and aims to increase public awareness of environmental protection, and the Macau Original IP Zone that promotes local creativity and entrepreneurship.
The statement said that the Sands Shopping Carnival also provides a convenient opportunity for local SME suppliers to enrol in the upcoming 10th intake of the Sands Procurement Academy, pointing out that the free training programme shares business knowledge and skills to help groom local SME suppliers to meet international standards, helping them gain experience and capacity for working with large-scale international corporations.
The statement said that in order to safeguard public health at the carnival, Sands China is once again implementing a series of strict sanitisation and safety measures to prevent the transmission of COVID-19. The statement stressed that the organisers will impose measures such as temperature checks upon entry, monitoring crowd size to ensure a safe number of participants, mandatory facemasks and health code checks, socially distanced booths, plastic partitions on food court tables, regular sanitisation and regular cleaning of public areas and kids’ facilities, and disinfectants and hand sanitisers at all booths and at all carnival entry and exit points.
More information about the Sands Shopping Carnival is available at the event’s official website at https://en.sandsresortsmacao.com/shopping/sands-shopping-carnival-2021.html.
This undated handout photo provided by Sands China shows people attending the previous Sands Shopping Carnival.
