The Malta Tourism Society was founded in April 2002.
"To Create a National Awareness about the socio-economic benefits of tourism for Malta and Gozo and to work with regional and international networks to enhance the Euro-Med Product in a sustainable manner."
It is made up of elected committee members to manage MTS (a voluntary organisation) according to its statute.
The President of the organisation is Julian C Zarb. Both Julian C Zarb and Emanuel (Noel) Falzon are responsible to co-ordinate with all VocMat partners on behalf of MTS.
The Malta Tourism Society is an active member of EUTO.
The European Union of Tourism Officers (EUTO) has since October 2005 been working together with a number of Partners coming from Catalonia; England; Estonia; Italy; Latvia; Malta; Scotland and Turkey on “VocMat” a new concept for on line or e learning for those involved directly or indirectly in the tourism industry. The Partners also include University of Girona; University of Florence; Sheffield Hallam University; University of Malta; Parnu College of the University of Tartu; Tourist Board Training Scotland; Tourism Management Institute England; Enterprise Estonia / Estonia Tourist Board; Malta Tourism Society and Sungurlu Vocation & Technology Development Association Turkey.
VocMat and the Malta Tourism Society
In 2007, two more Partners from Malta decided to join, these were the Malta Tourism Society and University of Malta. Initially it was plan n ed that the number of student participants from each participating country should be limited, in fact Malta was allowed to have a maximum of 9 students.
The Malta Tourism Society sat on the VocMat Management and Valorisation Groups.
Contact details:
Malta Tourism Society representative on the project Noel E Falzon on ncfalzon@onvol.net or Julian C Zarb on welcomejuliette@hotmail.com.
University of Malta – Dr. Nadia Theuma on nadia.theuma@um.edu.mt.