MALTESE MINISTERIAL DELEGATION IN BUDAPEST

The Minister for Tourism Michael Refalo left Malta this afternoon for Budapest at the head of a Government delegation to the World Tourism Organisation Commission for Europe Meeting and Seminar on the Future of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in European Tourism faced with Globalisation. Parliamentary Secretary Edwin Vassallo and officials from the Ministry of Tourism and the Ministry of Economic Services are accompanying him to attend the meeting whose agenda includes the implementation of the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism and the International Year of Ecotourism 2002.

Minister Refalo and Parliamentary Secretary Vassallo have been invited by WTO to make a presentation on "The Role of SME's in the sustainable tourism development of Malta". The presentation is scheduled for Friday, 25^th May, 2001.