The Mona School of Business (MSB), UWI has joined with Jamaica’s Investment Promotions Agency, JAMPRO and the Jamaica Conference Board, Jamaica Chamber of Commerce to host a Symposium titled Cricket World Cup 2007: Business Opportunities. The event, to be held under the theme It’s More Than Cricket its Creating Business Opportunities, was unveiled on Thursday, September 2 at a Press Launch held at the Mona Visitors’ Lodge and Conference Centre on the Mona Campus. Acting Executive Director of MSB, Prof. Neville Ying, noted that the Mona School of Business was pleased to be instrumental in making persons in the business community seize the business opportunities that will be associated with ICC Cricket World Cup 2007. He said that the Cricket World Cup, like other major events such as the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games, offers two basic benefits to countries in which they are hosted. These are opportunities to put in infrastructure that will be beneficial not only to the event, but to sustained development of the host country and opportunities for business and entrepreneurial activities before, during and after the period of the event. The symposium, to be held at the Jamaica Conference Centre, Downtown Kingston on Thursday, October 7, 2004 will allow business persons to discuss business opportunities in accommodations, music and culture; transportation; tours and attractions; event support services, financial services, media and manufacturing and retail. Head of the new Tourism and Hospitality Unit at MSB, and Chairman of the planning committee, James Samuels, noted that the symposium will also allow participants to examine the experience of South Africa which hosted the last cricket world cup in 2003. Keynote Speaker at the symposium will therefore be Dr. Ali Bacher who was Executive Director of 2003 World Cup Cricket. Other speakers will include music mogul, Chris Blackwell, President of the Jamaica Olympic Association, Mike Fennell, and officials of the ICC World Cup Cricket West Indies 2007 Limited. The organisors hope to attract some 200 participants to the symposium.