Halloween Horrors, a highly successful event that has been running
for six years, was to be held at the Night Safari on September 30th, but
the Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS) management decided to to yank it 2
weeks before launch.
The event is run by students from Singapore Polytechnic's Diploma in
Events and Project Management as their final year project.
Seven months of hard work, almost $1 million dollars spent, 1000 tickets sold, all down the tubes.
Apparently, the new CEO, Isabella Loh, said that there was negative
feedback from "corporations, friends of the zoo, the public and the
media about the event, especially over the relevance in relation to
conservation".
CEO Isabella Loh also said that it would focus on more multi-cultural
family bonding events, and that the Halloween event was canceled
because it clashed with a Deepavali event in October.
What was particularly disturbing was a report from the SP team that
someone in the senior management said, in response to why the event was
canceled, 'We should not worship the devil. We can be creative and turn
the bad for good."
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