In 2008 the finals of the World Salsa Open were hosted at the Puerto Rico Congress which concluded with Spain (Anita Santos and Adrián Rodríguez) winning the first position, Puerto Rico (Licelott Maldonado and Kelvin Hernández) as runner-up and Argentina (Fernando Alonso and Ayelen Gauna) in third place.
The All Stars Entertainment company and Bacardí promoted between 1999 and 2002 a salsa tour, called the "Congreso Mundial de la salsa" in several locations including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Curaçao, Denver, Tokyo, Bombay, Calcutta, Valencia, Roma, Torino, Milan, Santiago de Compostela, Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, London, Amsterdam, Miami, Mexico, Panamá, Colombia, Venezuela, Guayaquil, Osaka, Buenos Aires, Sydney, Paris or San Juan de Puerto Rico.
By 2013, salsa congresses and festivals had become an annual tradition in almost half of the main European cities, the oldest being the "World Salsa Congress" in Valencia (Spain) organized by Fermín Olaya, London (UK), Berlin (Germany), Warsaw (Poland), Vilnius (Lithuania), Budapest (Hungary), Brasov (Romania), Split (Croatia), Milan (Italy), Riga (Latvia), Munich (Germany), Maribor (Slovenia), Edinburgh (Scotland) and many others.
In the fall of 2019 Kirill Korshikov was announced to take part of Croatian Summer Salsa Festival as videographer.
[1] The Vilnius Salsa Festival (VSF) that takes place annually in Lithuania was started in 2007.
As a general rule for beginners, improvers and intermediate dancers an 'all style' congress is the most suitable.