3-Day Sands Shopping Carnival Arrives This Weekend
Family-friendly carnival July 23-25 at Cotai Expo
(Macao, July 21, 2021) – The 2021 Sands
Shopping Carnival is coming up this weekend,
July 23-25, bringing Macao's largest shopping event of
its kind back to The Venetian® Macao's
Cotai Expo for a second
year.
Highlights of
the free-admission carnival include:
• Over 560 retail booths offering some of
the best deals in town
• International-cuisine food court
with eco-friendly tableware
• Games and play area for kids featuring
inflatable slides, game booths, sports games, and
more
• Karaoke contest
• Little Master Chef workshop
• Lucky
draws
Visitors to
the 21,000-square-metre Friday-Sunday carnival
can enjoy browsing the exhibition's 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 Macao Original
IP.
Newly added
this year are the Green Lifestyle Zone, selling
eco-friendly products and increasing public awareness of
environmental protection, and the Macao Original IP
Zone, promoting local creativity and
entrepreneurship.
The BOC
Smart Kids Presents: Little Master Chef Workshop
brings back last year's popular food prep activity for
children, led by Sands China's food and beverage team,
and carnival goers can again cheer for their favourite
contestants in the ICBC ePay Presents: Karaoke King
Singing Competition
2021.
The Sands
Shopping Carnival is open to the public noon to 10
p.m. daily July 23-25 at Cotai Expo Halls
A and B. Carnival visitors can use the free
parking at Cotai Expo, or take complimentary
shuttle buses to and from the carnival and
various points throughout the
city.
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. 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. Carnival exhibitors can enjoy priority
enrolment in the academy's upcoming cohort. The
previous cohort attracted a record enrolment of 64
suppliers, many of whom were exhibitors in last year's
carnival.
In support of
social inclusion, Sands China has invited several
local social enterprises to participate in the
carnival, such as in the food court and the cultural and
creative zone. The company's volunteer team, the
Sands Cares Ambassadors, will also accompany
members of local NGOs to enjoy the
carnival.
The 2021 Sands
Shopping Carnival is organised by Sands China Ltd.,
co-organised by the Macao Chamber of Commerce, supported
by the Economic and Technological Development Bureau,
the Macao Government Tourism Office, and the Macao Trade
and Investment Promotion Institute, and sponsored by
Bank of China Macau Branch, ICBC (Macau), BNU, and Bank
of Communications Macau Branch. It supports the Macao
SAR government's Consume for the Economy initiative and
the newly launched e-consumption voucher scheme,
in promotion of the economy of Macao and the Greater Bay
Area.
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. These include, among others:
temperature checks upon entry; monitoring of crowd size
to ensure a safe number of participants; mandatory face
masks and health code checks; socially distanced booths;
plastic partitions on food court tables; regular
sanitisation and cleaning of public areas and kids'
facilities; and disinfectants and hand sanitisers at all
booths and at all carnival entry and exit
points.
Providing an
ideal shopping and leisure summer hotspot for families
under one roof, the Sands Shopping Carnival aims to give
back to the community by offering the best deals to
Macao residents and tourists in order to stimulate
domestic consumption and help boost the
economy.
More
information about the 2021 Sands Shopping
Carnival is available at the event's official
website at https://en.sandsresortsmacao.com/shopping/sands-shopping-carnival-2021.html.
Photo caption: The free-admission 2021 Sands Shopping
Carnival will be at The Venetian Macao's Cotai Expo July 23-25,
bringing Macao's largest shopping event of its kind back to the
city for a second year.
Photo caption: After the success of last year's popular
Sands Shopping Carnival (pictured), locals and visitors can
again enjoy a variety of fun activities and some of the best
retail deals in town at the 2021 Sands Shopping Carnival July
23-25 at The Venetian Macao's Cotai
Expo.