LONDON, England: Travel Bite, October 9, 2006 - As famous for being tax havens as their pirate past, the Cayman Islands are now looking to attract a different kind of visitor - the jazz-loving holidaymaker.

Taking place from November 30th to December 2nd, the Cayman Jazz Fest will feature performances from Natalie Cole, Kem, Boney James and Arturo Tappin as well as local musicians.

One of the highlights of the festival will be the opportunity to enjoy two of the three music events outdoors and soak up the warmth of the tropical evenings.

As well as jazz music, holidaymakers can also enjoy beaches, exploring local wildlife and for the more adventurous, diving.

Tourists shun Cayman Islands Stingray City after Steve Irwin death

CYBER DIVER News Network, October 8, 2006 - Remember when Stingray City in the Cayman Islands was the world's most overpopulated, eco-unfriendly and boring dive site?  Well now you can add the "world's most dangerous dive site" thanks to TV entertainer Steve Irwin's grand finale.

Since then, tourist bookings have declined by 60 to 100 percent at the controversial Cayman Islands "interactive" feeding site where one young American teenage tourist nearly lost his arm in May 2005.

That despite reassurances from the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism that Stingray City has a "clean safety record".

In fact, there have been several serious accidents at Stingray City involving participants in so-called "interactive" diving and snorkeling activities, a lucrative business scheme promoted by California-based dive industry kingpins PADI, DEMA, Project Aware and the Coral Reef Alliance.

"Interactive" is a euphemism for "fish feeding" which aims to sell guaranteed "marine wildlife" encounters to paying tourists.

Although the Cayman Islands banned shark feeding in 2002 due to concerns about the threats of interactive diving to public safety and sharks, local dive shops and tourist boat operators still feed stingrays, eels and other potentially dangerous marine predators.