The island of Montserrat will host the Fourth Annual Calabash Festival, July 11 to 19. The week-long event offers a wide selection of festivities that highlight the hidden talents of local artisans and designers.

The Caribbean Sea Jazz Festival is prepared - once again - to present a first-class music event with an excellent line up for September 4 and 5. Expect for international, regional, and national artists of supreme standard at this one of a kind jazz fiesta in Aruba! The success of the first two editions was mainly thanks to a number of organizations and the public in Aruba who made it all possible.

Cancun has been designated as the host destination for the Global Summit over Lessons Learned from Influenza A (H1N1), to be held July 1 to 3. During a press conference held on June 22, where Minister of Health Jose Cordova made the announcement, the Governor of Quintana Roo, Felix Gonzalez, emphasized the importance of this event for the state as it shows the reestablishment of confidence and trust in the country, specially in this state, where tourism continues to recuperate at a rapid pace.

The organizing committee of the annual Aruba Hi-Winds Tournament welcomed media to their unofficially headquarters of Moomba Beach Bar and Restaurant to announce that this popular event, attracting over 100 top windsurfers will be celebrating its 23rd year with an opening party at Moomba on Wednesday July 1.

The largest gathering of professional travel writers and photographers in 2009 will take place in Guadalajara, Mexico on Oct. 8 to 13 when the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW) holds their annual convention here.

If any one destination could claim an enviable position throughout Caribbean Week in New York 2009, it would have to be St. Kitts.