The Middle East’s first Business and Luxury Travel awards

The Middle East’s first Business and Luxury Travel awards

The 7th annual MICE Arabia and Luxury Travel (MALT) Congress 2019 is calling for nominations to the regions’ first of its kind event that highlights, honors and celebrates path-breaking achievements in the field of Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, Events (MICE), Business and Luxury Travel. The awards acknowledge and reward exceptional achievements and initiatives of top organizations as well as individuals. The event will be held at the Rixos Premium Dubai JBR on February 27, 2019.

The MALT Congress is the regions’ exclusive, by Invitation only business platform that brings together the world of outbound business and luxury travel from the Middle East under one roof along with suppliers representing the most sought after and emerging destinations such as Kuwait, Oman, Finland, Iceland, Greece, Croatia, Russia, Korea, Spain, Italy, Zimbabwe, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tanzania, Georgia, Ethiopia, Poland and Singapore to name a few.

Commenting on the introduction of the awards this year, Sidh NC, Director, QNA International said, “The MALT congress is not just a conference program but a business experience and a niche community for ideas, content and relationships. This year we are introducing the MALT Excellence Awards to recognize and acknowledge some of the great initiatives and individuals from the Middle East that are making MICE tourism more attractive and creating a great demand for new experiential travel and exotic destinations.”

The awards aim to felicitate not only organizations that have successfully used Meetings, Incentives, Conference, Events (MICE) as a key tool to increase brand awareness, customer and employee engagement, but also organizers, planners and buyers of business and luxury travel, who have tailor-made outstanding, creative and innovative programs for their internal/external stakeholders.

This event is organized by QNA International, an entity that creates and delivers business learning and development exchange platforms through B2B conferences, bespoke events and training.

mice-arabia.com/awards

 

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Rita Ghantous

Rita Ghantous is a hospitality aficionado and a passionate writer with over 9 years’ experience in journalism and 5 years experience in the hospitality sector. Her passion for the performance arts and writing, started early. At 10 years old she was praised for her solo performance of the Beatles song “All My Love” accompanied by a guitarist, and was approached by a French talent scout during her school play. However, her love for writing was stronger. Fresh out of school, she became a freelance journalist for Noun Magazine and was awarded the Silver Award Cup for Outstanding Poetry, by The International Library of Poetry (Washington DC). She studied Business Management and earned a Masters degree from Saint Joseph University (USJ), her thesis was published in the Proche-Orient, Études en Management book. She then pursued a career in the hospitality industry but didn’t give up writing, that is why she launched the Four Points by Sheraton Le Verdun Newsletter. Her love for the industry and journalism led her to Hospitality Services - the organizers of the HORECA trade show in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Jordan, as well as Salon Du Chocolat, Beirut Cooking Festival, Whisky Live and other regional shows. She is currently the Publications Executive of Hospitality News Middle East, Taste & Flavors and Lebanon Traveler. It is with ultimate devotion for her magazines that she demonstrates her hospitality savoir-faire.

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