MATATO Launches Voting Period for Maldives Travel Awards Guesthouse Edition 2018


Maldives
PUBLISHED July 08, 2018

Maldives Association of Travel Agents and Tour Operators (MATATO) has announced the nominations of Maldives Travel Awards Guesthouse Edition 2018 and launched a one month voting period select winners.


In a statement, MATATO said voting would be conducted until July 31. Online votes will be collected through the Maldives Travel Awards website, while SMS votes will be accepted from both Oreedoo and Dhiraagu networks.


"Winners in the Guesthouse edition are selected with a combination of popular vote (60%) and traveller ratings (40%) provided by worlds largest travel website Tripadvisor," the statement read.


Nomination for the Guesthouse Edition closed on May with 111 entries in 15 categories, representing more than 60 businesses operating in the guesthouse sector.


MATATO and Guesthouse Association of Maldives (GAM) will jointly host a gala ceremony in August in the satellite town of Hulhumale, which is home to a majority of the guesthouses in the Maldives, to announce the winners.


Introduced last year, the Guesthouse Edition builds on the recognition awarded to guesthouses by MATATO as part of the Maldives Travel Awards and celebrates the outstanding performance of the guesthouse sector.


Maldives Association of Travel Agents and Tour Operators (MATATO) is a non-profit organisation that has been working the last ten years to foster and promotes SMEs of local travel agents.


The association has engaged themselves in various activities over the years from advocacy, training, and workshops, travel trade fairs in many parts of the world, media FAM trips, government lobbying, recognition programs such as Awards, travel conferences and forums, publications, destination marketing, whistle-blower programs, representation and much more.

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