Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson will deliver the keynote address at the opening of the 11th Annual Caribbean Conference on Sustainable Tourism Development (STC-11) on May 9 at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Center.
According to exhibitors at the International Tourism Show of Catalonia, this year Catalans will travel more than last season. The proposals of the retail travel agencies, as well as the remaining participants, were very well received by over 195,000 trade visitors and general public who attended the show

Aruba is holding its Fourth Annual International Aruba Piano Festival, April 17-24, 2010. The festival, established in 2006, is one of the most important annual chamber music events in the Caribbean region, and includes classical recitals from internationally acclaimed musicians, as well as master classes for amateur talent and a piano competition, giving talented youthful pianists from Aruba the chance to be discovered and acknowledged.

Jamaica’s 15th Annual Caribbean Golf Association Classic will be held in Montego Bay from May 12 to 16. The annual event is played on three of Jamaica’s top golf courses, Cinnamon Hill Golf Course at Rose Hall Resort and Spa -- a Hilton resort, White Witch Golf Course at the Ritz-Carlton Rose Hall Golf and Spa Resort, and the Half Moon Golf Course at the Half Moon Resort.

Andres Van de Horst Alvarez, executive director of the National Competitiveness Council (CNC is the Spanish acronym), called today for stronger alliance among national sectors by powering up and reinforcing tourism clusters, a more including modality that helps improve social and economic development of all peoples.
Barbados unveiled a new festival lineup that includes Sir Garfield Sobers Festival of Golf (April 23 to 25).