The great exhibition was heralded as the first intensive effort to promote tourism in the island. Its principal purpose was to educate the people and awaken them from economic stupor and steer them up and arouse their interests in the possibilities of the country. Suitable for exhibit were gadgets for curing and preparing ginger, spices, coffee, cocoa and annotto as well as fruit-drying devices, small windmills, turbines and other time and labour ???saving contriviances.