With less than one week remaining for the Caribbean’s largest celebration, Trinidad Carnival, the island is in the final preparations for the event. Hotels on the island are at full capacity with thousands of masquerade band revelers and bystanders eagerly awaiting the highlight of the festival, the parade of the bands on Carnival Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 15 and 16.

Grammy award-winning singer and pianist John Legend will headline the first-ever Curacao North Sea Jazz Festival, Sept. 3 and 4. Legend will be joined by George Benson and Sergio Mendes as well as other international acts.

The Best of MICE Networking Forums are business meetings which bring together buyers of corporate events and a selected panel of suppliers in the tourism and event industry over a period of 3 days.

Golf enthusiasts and celebrity athletes alike will once again head to The St. Kitts Marriott Resort for the 5th Annual Legends Golf Classic, April 21 – 25, 2010.

The classic and luxury oriented Half Moon Resort will be the hosts of the largest and most important trade fair for travel agents, tour operators and wholesalers, this May in Jamaica. Delegates of the Jamaica Tourism Board will have the opportunity of experiencing the first class comforts of five star cuisine, beautifully manicured gardens and walking paths along the ocean, and old world charm and gentility. Half Moon Resort is located in the exclusive Rose Hall area of Montego Bay, and offers world class convention services.

It was announced today that the island nation of Aruba will host a new international film festival (the nation’s first), The Aruba International Film Festival (AIFF), which will take place June 4-10, 2010. Details were unveiled at a press conference today by AIFF Founders and Producers Giuseppe Cioccarelli and Jonathan Vieira, along with the Festival’s Artistic Director Claudio Masenza, at the Radisson Hotel & Resort in Aruba’s Palm Beach.