Created for an instructional design course, featuring images and facts about Trinidad and Tobago. I want to go.

1. TRAVELOGUE:
Trinidad & Tobago
By Timothy Walker
Timothy.Walker@ucf.edu

2. HISTORY
 Named by Columbus in 1498
 Populated by African and East
Indian laborers under colonial
rule
 Declared independence from
Great Britain in 1962

3. TOURISM
 Carnival
• Giant party before Ash
Wednesday
• Music, costumes, parades…
 Beaches
• Maracas Bay, Trinidad
• Pigeon Point, Tobago
Carnival Time!

4. CULTURE
 Colonialism made a melting
pot
• The Spanish slave trade
• British indentured labor
 Racial and religious diversity

5. FOOD
 The food reflects the culture
• West African
• East Indian
• Chinese
• Tropical produce

6. ECONOMY
 Trinidad is highly industrialized
• The oil and gas sector dominates
 Tobago more agrarian
• Tropical crops are exported
 Both islands are reliant on tourism

7. CONCLUSION
 World’s biggest street party?
 Peaceful island paradise?
 Why not both?
 Go Trinidad and Tobago
Steelband Monument, San Fernando, Trinidad

8. REFERENCES
Sources
 Central Intelligence Agency. (2019). Trinidad and
Tobago. In The world factbook. Retrieved from
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-
world-factbook/geos/td.html
 Ganeshram, R., & Vellotti, J.-P. (2006). Sweet
hands: island cooking from Trinidad & Tobago.
New York: Hippocrene Books.
 Trinidad and Tobago. (2004). In Worldmark
encyclopedia of the nations (11th ed., Vol. 3, pp.
391-401). Detroit, MI: Gale. Retrieved from
https://link-gale-
com.ezproxy.net.ucf.edu/apps/doc/CX341020017
8/GVRL?u=orla57816&sid=GVRL&xid=250195a9
 Trinidad & Tobago Tourism Development
Company Ltd. (n.d.). Beaches. Retrieved from
https://www.gotrinidadandtobago.com/trinidad-
and-tobago/beaches.html
Images
 Darwinek. (2009, June 21). Flag-map of Trinidad and Tobago [online image].
Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag-
map_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago.svg
 Kalamazadkhan (Photographer). (2012, July 27). Steelpan Monument - San
Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago [digital image]. Retrieved from
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steelpan_Monument_-
_San_Fernando,_Trinidad_and_Tobago.jpg
 Kalamazadkhan (Photographer). (2017, April 16). Trinidad & Tobago East Indian
wedding food [digital image]. Retrieved from
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trinidad_%26_Tobago_East_Indian_We
dding_Food.jpg
 Mister Jo (Photographer). (2006, March 9). Two revelers “wining" in Trinidad's
Carnival [digital image]. Retrieved from
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Revellers_Wine_at_Trinidad_Carnival.jp
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 Morgan, M. (Photographer). (2012, November 27). 0139 Trinidad and Tobago
money [digital image]. Retrieved from
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mmorgan8186/8378019475
 Newly arrived indentured Indians in Trinidad and Tobago. (c. 1897). Retrieved
from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago#/media/File:Newl
y_arrived_coolies_in_Trinidad.jpg
 quillons (Photographer). (2011, August 9). Nylon pool [digital image]. Retrieved
from https://www.flickr.com/photos/7632432@N02/6080008542