Key positions at MTA left vacant

The Malta Tourism Authority (MTA) has said that there are posts within the organisation’s marketing department that are currently vacant, and have been so for a long time now.

In comments to MaltaToday, Nationalist MP Antoine Borg revealed that the positions that were vacant were mostly Destination Marketing Representatives working overseas.

“These positions would be responsible for carrying out the MTA’s work in foreign countries like France, Germany and Italy. As you can imagine these vacancies would be particularly damaging as the people holding these posts would be responsible both for the work done abroad and for the reputation of the company,” Borg added.

Borg confirmed that he had asked Tourism Minister Edward Zammit Lewis a supplementary question during Monday night’s Parliamentary session, as to whether the ministry was aware of these vacancies, and whether anything was being done about the situation.

The government acknowledged the situation following Borg’s question, and Zammit Lewis insisted that efforts were being made to solve the issue, but the appropriate course of action was yet unclear.

Borg said that the same was also valid for some positions within the Institute of Tourism Studies (ITS), but that a ruling was expected in this case in the coming weeks. Borg urged the government to take action about the issue as soon as possible.