Savor the sun, fun and rum this winter during the 2010 Barbados Food & Wine and Rum Festival. Happening from November 19-22, the festival celebrates fabulous Caribbean flavors through cooking demos, rum tastings and beachfront parties featuring celebrated chefs Tim Love, Ming Tsai and Tom Colicchio.

Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett was on Sunday, October 3 presented with the CMEx 2010 Exemplar Award during the closing awards dinner of the 19th Caribbean Media Exchange (CMEx) on Sustainable Tourism at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel.

The CMEx award was established to recognize those who inspire others with their life’s work to the cause of sustainable tourism and development and was presented to the Tourism Minister by inaugural winner Barbara Pyle, one of the founders of CNN and developer of the popular cartoon series – Captain Planet.

This Carnival season, legions of travelers will flock to the dual-island nation of Trinidad & Tobago for its international festival, Trinidad Carnival. With six months to go before the event and as preparations move into high gear, now is the time to secure accommodations before hotels on the island are sold out -- and to take advantage of early booking rates.

Project Meeting Architecture is being created to enhance the overall effectiveness of meetings by globally creating Meeting Architecture, a discipline focused on designing and implementing the content of meetings based on objectives and measuring the outcome. The discipline will form the basis of educational programs for professionals and students.

From Nov. 11 to 14, 2010, one of the Caribbean’s fastest-growing annual musical traditions will present a repeat performance of jazz rhythms set against the backdrop of Anguilla. And this year, the first annual Celebrity Golf Tournament will take place in conjunction with the Anguilla experience -- All That’s Jazz. The venue for the 2010 edition of the Anguilla Tranquility Jazz & Golf Festival is the Cuisinart Resort and Spa, located on Rendezvous Bay.

Messe Berlin (Singapore) has announced that 47 percent of hosted buyers at ITB Asia 2010 will be new buyers. The majority of them have been recommended by exhibitors.