Negative Impacts and Remedies of Carnival Festival: Event Impact Report and Risk Assessment

EVENT IMPACT REPORT
AND RISK ASSESSMENT

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Identification of the Carnival festival-.........................................................................................3
Negative Impacts of the carnival festival-...................................................................................4
Key stakeholders which are impacted by these negative effects-................................................5
Remedies of these negative impacts-...........................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
A festival is an event which is celebrated by some community in the different regions on
focusing on particular religion or cultures. Event is an occurrence of something while festival is
the community gatherings which centres on a specific theme. Festival may differ from country to
country. Carnival festival is involves the public parades, public street parties and this is
celebrated in many countries around the world. This report will discuss the negative impacts of
the carnival festival as well as its remedies. The second part of this will discuss the risk
assessment stated in the given case study like dark zone, alcohol and technological risk.
MAIN BODY
PART A
Identification of the Carnival festival-
Carnival festival is the festival which is celebrated in many countries of the world. It is
the celebration of different colours which converts into the beautiful and attractive customs,
different forms of dancing, music which attracts thousands of people from different parts of the
world. This festival (Bares, 2021) involves public street parties, public parades and other
entertainment events involving some parts of the circus as well. Visiting in carnival, it consists of
amusement rides, food vendors, games of chance and skills, thrill acts as well as the animal acts.
The traditional wear of the carnival festival is to wear masks as it is very easy for the people so
whosoever they want to mingle and to be with them. Other common characteristics of the
carnival festival is the food fights, expressing the social satire, unique and funny costumes such
as with large nose, mouths, bellies and the animal body costumes. Historian states that the first
modern Carnival was originated by Trinidad and Tobago in the late 18th century. This term
carnival is usually used in the areas where there is large catholic presence.
The first day of this festival often shows the local traditions of the area. Different countries have
different names of this festival. There are many famous carnival festivals in the world among
them the most famous modern carnival festival is of Rio De Janeiro. Carnival is the worldwide
festival which is celebrated on particular theme of the region. This festival finds the social and

historic origin and the expression of the local culture. There is several positive impacts on the
social culture of the local people like it as strengths the local communities, self-esteem, spirit,
dedication, education and learning and social integration. Notting Hill carnival is an annual
Caribbean festival which held in London since 1966 on the streets of the Notting Hill of
Kensington. It is celebrated each year in the month of August over two days.
There is bank holiday on these two days of carnival festival. It is held by the members of the
British West Indian community which makes one of the world's largest street festivals. In the
year 2021, carnival festival in UK was held on 29-20 August. These Carnival festivals attracts a
lot of people as they provide them with more of enjoyment and fun and as it happens once in a
year.
Negative Impacts of the carnival festival-
There are many such negative impacts of the carnival festival such as-
1. Overcrowding- This is the negative impact of the carnival festival which has many risks
to the people as well as to the animals. This festival when happens in the country, it
gathers the large amount of people at the place because of which there is overcrowding at
that place. There are many risks from the overcrowding (Namberger, et.al. 2019) like
loss of the life of humans, injury to the people, trampled of people under the foot etc.
These festivals when have negative impacts and risks, can take the lives of the people.
This may lead to traffic congestion at the place where this festival will be holding. There
will be problem to the people from moving one place to another. This will overall
contribute to the air pollution.
2. Pollution- This impact targets on the environment as well as on the ageing people. When
these festivals held there can be many types of pollution occurs like air, water, noise. Air
pollution can happen because of the excessive use of the crackers at this festival. When
there are large gatherings at some place then it causes noise pollution as well. This has
many risks on the aged people or people who are sufferings from some diseases. It can
cause dieaseas like high blood pressure, heart diseases, sleep disturbances and stress to
the people and hearing problem as well. It also disturbs the students who are studying by
the loud noise of the music.
3. Increased Vandalism and Crime- The vandalism and crime has increased much at these
festivals. Vandalism is the action of destroying the public property. When there is much