Malta Tourism Authority wins prestigious award for the best national tourism office in the promotion of MICE in Russia
At the eighth annual ceremony of the Russian Business Travel & MICE Awards 2017, held in Moscow, the Malta Tourism Authority office in Moscow was announced as the winner of the Best national tourism office or convention bureau in the field of MICE promotion. The award was received by Anthony Caruana, MTA representative in Moscow and Dr Carmel Brincat, Malta’s Ambassador for the Russian Federation.
The award is in recognition of the excellent work being done by the MTA and Conventions Malta in Moscow, who fought off competitors from Spain, Italy, Israel, Germany, as well as from various Russian regions.
The Russian Business Travel & MICE Award is an award for the best companies and enterprises in the sphere of business tourism and MICE. This award was established in 2010 by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, Business Travel magazine and Conference.ru portal and is supported by the Federal Agency for Tourism of the Russian Federation. It is also considered as the most prestigious award in its category in Russia.
The award covers all participants of the business tourism market – the best congress hotels in Moscow, St Petersburg and the regions of the country, the best congress centres, organisers of conferences and incentive programmes in Russia and abroad, business travel agencies, online booking systems, airlines for business-travellers and convention-bureaux.
Over 200 nominees vied for the prestigious award with the winners being chosen over two stages. The first stage took place online, over a period of three months, with two million Internet votes being submitted in 14 categories.
In order to determine the winners, a council of experts was formed, bringing together market experts, leading Russian and international companies – large customers of business travel services and MICE. The specialisation of companies, representatives of which are members of the expert council, covers the most diverse market sectors z aviation, defence industry, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications and others.