The Bermuda College "Main Event'' will take place on Saturday, March 22, not March 23, to coincide with Tourism Appreciation Week.

Students will turn their attention to the Island's main industry next week as a part of Education Month.

With the theme "Tourism: We are Bermuda'', the Education Month Committee has set out a full month of activities, including student visits to businesses involved in tourism.

The month will officially begin on February 3 with a Press conference by Education Minister Jerome Dill on the grounds of the Cabinet Building.

Students from various schools are expected to parade in clothing and other garb depicting modes of transportation and other things which reflect the tourism industry.

Other activities during the month will include student interviews of people involved in the tourism industry, Thank-A-Teacher Day on February 10, open houses, and public lunch-time concerts which will feature students.

This year, organisers noted, the concert programme has been expanded to include concerts held at breakfast and tea time at both ends of the Island.

A fashion show with a tourism flavour, featuring 30 student models will also be held on February 28 at Warwick Secondary School's auditorium, beginning at 7.30 p.m.

The Bermuda College "Main Event'' celebrations, which are normally held at the end of Education Month, will this year be held on March 23 to coincide with Tourism Awareness Week.

The event will be held from noon to 4 p.m. at the college campus. Added activities will be the waiters' and bed-making races. All activities will be open to the public.

Members of the Education Month Committee -- which include educators from pre-school to college level, the Visitor Industry Partnership and the Hospitality Professionals Association -- noted that Education Month has always "meant fun for the family in an educational setting''.

"The building of partnerships between education and other sectors of the community has always been important to the Education Ministry,'' Mr. Dill added. "The collaboration between ourselves and Tourism this year speaks to our continued commitment to this purpose.''