{"id":20806,"date":"2013-08-18T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/mta-takes-out-top-honours-at-virtuoso-travel-week-2\/"},"modified":"2013-08-18T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T21:43:00","slug":"mta-takes-out-top-honours-at-virtuoso-travel-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/08\/mta-takes-out-top-honours-at-virtuoso-travel-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MTA takes out top honours at Virtuoso Travel Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

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PR\/Pix \u2013 MTA takes out top honours at Virtuoso Travel Week <\/span><\/span><\/u><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Capping what has proven a magnificent and very memorable week for MTA<\/span> – Mobile Travel Agents at Virtuoso Travel Week in Las Vegas, MTA has been named Virtuoso’s ‘Top Producer Australia and New Zealand’.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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A very proud Sara Merricks and Andrew Challinor were on hand to accept the award on behalf of the MTA network<\/span> at a glittering event attended by more than 4,000 travel advisors and global suppliers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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MTA Managing Directors, Roy Merricks and Karen Merricks said winning the award was an incredible feat.<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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“More to the point, this recognition speaks volumes about the ability of our consultants and the first class service that they provide to their valued clients, ” Mr Merricks said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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‘This isn’t just recognition for us in our area of business \u2013 winning this award in front of a truly international audience comprised of our peers has really positioned our brand on the world travel stage. <\/span><\/p>\n

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“We could not be prouder.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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A beaming MTA Alex Prez planting a kiss on the Virtuoso ‘Top Producer Australia and New Zealand’ award.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pictured (from left to right) all glammed up at the Virtuoso Travel Week ‘Destination Showcase Dinner’, <\/span>MTA \u2013 Mobile Travel Agents’ Katrina Casey, Alycia Papadopoulos and Sara Merricks.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The ‘Destination Showcase Dinner’<\/span> was one of several ‘must have invitation’ functions taking place at the exclusive Las Vegas event.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The three MTA-ers were part of the MTA team attending Virtuoso Travel Week which, in its 25th<\/sup> year, attracted a record-breaking attendance of more than 4,100 participants.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This includes some 3,700 travel agents, wholesalers and suppliers who between them conducted in excess of 350,000 one-on-one meetings across the week.<\/span><\/p>\n

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PR\/Pix \u2013 MTA takes out top honours at Virtuoso Travel Week \u00a0 Capping what has proven a magnificent and very memorable week for MTA – Mobile Travel Agents at Virtuoso Travel Week in Las Vegas, MTA has been named Virtuoso’s ‘Top Producer Australia and New Zealand’. \u00a0 A very proud Sara Merricks and Andrew Challinor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}