Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon 15 days later.

Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF) was first started in February 1996 by the Dubai government as purely a retail event aimed to promote trade in Dubai.

The Air Guitar World Championships started as a joke in 1996 and has grown into a seriously fun, semi-absurd performance art that appeals to a wide international audience and media

Oktoberfest is a 16–18 day festival held each year in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, running from late September to the first weekend in October.

The Carnival of Venice is an annual festival, held in Venice, Italy. The Carnival starts around two weeks before Ash Wednesday and ends on Shrove Tuesday (Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras), the day before Ash Wednesday.

The Rio Carnaval is not only the biggest Carnival, it as also a benchmark against which every other carnival is compared and one of the most interesting artistic events on the Globe

The Pirates Week is set in the Caribbean and is eleven fun filled days with music, street dances, competitions, games, local food and drink, kids day, glittering parade, sports events for everyone.

Halloween is an annual holiday observed on October 31, which commonly includes activities such as trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.

Saint Patrick's Day is a religious holiday celebrated internationally on 17 March. It commemorates Saint Patrick the most commonly recognised of the patron saints of Ireland, and the arrival of Christianity in Ireland.

Beltane or Beltaine is the anglicised spelling of Old Irish Beltain the Gaelic name for either the month of May or the festival that takes place on first day of May.

An annual tradition in the Netherlands is the New Year’s Dive (Nieuwjaarsduik in Dutch) taken by some 10,000 people into the icy cold waters of the North Sea at Scheveningen Beach.