The World Travel awards are hailed as “The Oscars of the Travel Industry” by the Wall Street Journal and recognised worldwide as the ultimate travel accolade.
The Westin Dragonara Resort has once again achieved a winning title: ‘Europe’s Leading Meetings & Conference Resort’ during the World Travel Awards European regional ceremony, staged in Antalya, Turkey that took place on Friday 2nd September. The award was presented to Mr Michael Kamsky, General Manager at The Westin Dragonara Resort, during the gala night organised to celebrate this accomplishment.
This year, a phenomenal 213,000 industry professionals participated in the voting process, which is scrupulously monitored and independently audited. “Because of its global reach and reputation, World Travel Awards is unique and regularly referred to as the ‘Oscars’ of travel and tourism”, said Graham E. Cooke, Founder and President of World Travel Awards
Increasingly, the awards are known as raising the bar for ultimate customer service and overall business performance. Growing numbers of travel companies, airlines, operators and resorts compete to walk away with one of the coveted titles.
The Westin Dragonara Resort is honored in receiving such a prestigious award. The resort boasts of hosting numerous conferences ranging from Medical, Ministerial, Pharmaceutical, Product launches, IT conferences etc. The meetings and conference segment is one of great importance for The Westin Dragonara Resort which represents over 30% share of business. The Westin Malta offers meeting planners a whole team of in-house professionals who specialize in this area and cater for the individual needs of meeting planners to ensure that the conference is a total success. The Westin Malta also offers the service of a Star Meeting Concierge, a dedicated and highly trained concierge that will be present throughout the event, ready to help with anything that the meeting planner or any of the delegates may need. Each meeting and conference organizer also receives a Meeting Planner Satisfaction Survey to help the whole team in constantly improving the services offered by the resort. In addition The Westin Dragonara Resort offers meeting planners the option of earning Starwood points for their event and group organizers can benefit from a customized website reservation system for the event, known as StarGroups.