United Travel Malta

Last May, together with the Malta Tourism Authority and Hilton Malta, we hosted a Malta Experience and Showcase trip for Delion, one of our clients, and their key accounts. Paul Harvey, the Deputy Editor for M&IT, also joined us on this trip so that he too could get an experience as to what Malta has to offer MICE clients.  The trip included an iPad City Trail in Valletta, a day charter of a private luxury yacht, a selection of different types of vehicles including a karozzin (traditional Maltese horse drawn carriage), a vintage bus and vintage cars. The group were also treated to delicious meals at Guze in Valletta, the Gazebo at Hilton Malta, Ta' Frenc in Gozo & Caviar and Bull at the Corinthia.  Paul wrote an article in this month's M&IT magazine discussing what Malta has to offer (if you would like to read it, it can be found on pages 61 & 62). Throughout the article he talks about the different things he experienced while on this trip, includ...

Malta, only 316 square kilometres in size, and home to an impressive 9 UNESCO World Heritage Sites. OK, so if you visit the UNESCO World Heritage Convention website you will find only 3 properties on the Maltese Islands inscribed on the World Heritage List - these are the City of Valletta, the Hal Saflieni Hypogeum, and the Megalithic Temples of Malta. However, under the title of "Megalithic Temples of Malta" one can find seven temples around Malta and Gozo, so that makes the total of 9 sites in all. The oldest of all these temples are the two  Ġgantija temples that can be found on the island of Gozo. These temples are renowned for their gigantic Bronze Age structures. Dating from around 3600 to 3200 BC, they are the oldest, free-standing monuments in the world and are evidence that Gozo was inhabited for at least 1000 years before the Egyptians built the pyramids in Giza. Due to the gigantic dimensions of the monuments, locals believed that the temples were built by...

This week United Travel, together with the Malta Tourism Authority, Emirates and Hilton Malta, hosted an educational  familiarisation trip for eight MICE travel managers and event management companies. Despite the group only being here for just four nights we wanted to try and showcase as much of the Maltese Islands as we could fit into the limited time. The group visited a number of hotels and venues, including the Mediterranean Conference Centre, the Grand Hotel Excelsior, Smart City, Palazzo Parisio, Limestone Heritage, Palazzo Depiro and Xara Palace amongst others. However, their favourite activities were the following:  A Visit to a Gozitan Farm During a visit to Gozo, the group visited Rikardu's Farm - a typical Gozitan farm which is well-known for their delicious goats cheese known by the locals as Gbejna  meaning "cheeselet". On the farm they were introduced to the farm's herd of goats and even had the opportunity to milk the goats themselves! ...