St Lucia is a beautiful volcanic island with lush rainforests, undulating agricultural land and unspoilt beaches. It is also one of the world's breeziest places, where the trade winds blow in from the sea to the southern shore.

Before the visitor influx, banana exports sustained St Lucia, especially after 1964 when it stopped producing sugar cane. Realising the island's potential as a tourist destination, the government is now focusing its efforts on further diversification, principally directed towards the creation of a service sector based on tourism and financial services.

There is indeed a lot on offer on the island: St Lucia has excellent beaches, mountain scenery, the Qualibou Volcano and its boiling sulphur springs, orchids and exotic plants, and tropical flower-lined roadsides. There is still considerable British and French influence felt on the island. Fierce resistance from the indigenous Carib Indians kept British and French colonists away from the island for 50 years. Then, between the signing of a peace treaty with the French in 1660 and the British takeover of the island in 1814, ownership changed no fewer than 14 times! The British maintained control until 1979, when St Lucia was granted independence. The French influence lives on in the patois spoken in the country.
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St. Lucia Jazz (May)

St. Lucia Jazz has become one of the major events on St. Lucia’s calendar of
events. During the month of May, the island moves
to the beat of jazz when music fills the air and tourism takes on a whole new meaning to all. What started as simply a marketing event to boost tourism industry arrivals during a low peak period, has now developed into a truly St. Lucian Festival.

  St. Lucia Food and Rum Festival (October 26-27)
  The ‘Food & Rum Festival’ will be a gastronomic event   to attract the best chefs, wine connoisseurs, rum   fanatics and food critiques from not only across the   Caribbean but internationally.