RECORD numbers have booked tickets and the seventh annual Whitsunday Latin Festival is set to be the best and biggest yet.

Event organiser Jane Streeter said for the first time there would be a total of seven dance professionals teaching salsa, bachata, cha cha, Brazilian zouk and the north African style dance kizomba.

"(Kizomba is) a new dance that is just going gangbusters across the world in the Latin dance scene," Ms Streeter said.

"It's a very closehold dance, which is quite sensual. It's quite sexy and it's a nice dance to share with your dance partner."

Ms Streeter is a Latin dance instructor for Latin Madness, the non-profit organisation that's holding the festival.

Seventeen dance workshops, yoga classes, social dances and a two-course group dinner will be held across the three-day event.

World bachata champions Ellicia MacDonald and Mitch Bilic are amongst the instructors teaching at the festival.

"Ellicia will be leading one of her very popular dancing stretch and conditioning classes in the morning," Ms Streeter said.

Ms Streeter said dancing enthusiasts were coming from as far as Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne to participate in the festival.

"It's a wonderful time for dancers and would-be-dancers to both relax and enjoy the company of new friends as well as immerse ourselves in the music and music that we love," she said.

The full ticket includes accommodation, but as Cape Gloucester Beach Resort is already booked out with festival goers, the festival is booking out homes around Hydeaway Bay to host guests.

Latin Festival

When: May 13-16.

Where: Cape Gloucester Beach Resort.

Tickets: $399 for a full pass including accommodation and dinner, $250 for workshop, parties and dinner pass, $20 for Friday night show.

For more information contact 0405 115 127 or visit http://www.whitlatinfestival.com.