MTA takes on 20 new recruits

The Malta Tourism Authority has completed a recruitment drive through which it has employed 20 people as marketing, enforcement and administrative executives and operatives.

Tourism Minister Michael Refalo said the MTA's complement was now complete and the new personnel could, in time, be called on to serve in MTA's offices abroad.

"Even before you achieve these positions, you must remember that in the world of hospitality your role is similar to that of ambassadors," he said.

The minister told the new enforcement officers that their primary duty was to educate, assist and advise tourism operators and not simply to castigate and discipline them.