MITBCA2012

I personally praise Ministry of Tourism Malaysia and Social Media Chamber Malaysia for a successful conference that I think spark part of the participants to join onto the social media bandwagon especially on the two most talked about topic, blogging and twittering. 

MITBCA2012 short for Malaysian International Tourism Bloggers Conference and Awards 2012 was held at Seri Pacific Hotel Ballroom, in Jalan Putra, Kuala Lumpur on 8 and 9 May 2012. More than 430 delegates were present and according to the organiser was oversold. Well, I think they did not expect there are so many social media enthusiast who are interested in tourism, around in Malaysia. However the conference did show that there are many people on social media and MOTOUR can be sure that they can spread about tourism in Malaysia through those social media rats who are willing to share what is in store around the country when tourism is at stake. 

 With Shane Dallas - traveler, writer who call himself as The Travel Camel. He writes his travel experience on travelblog.

This is Sheila Scarborough, Co founder - tourism Currents & professional specializing in tourism, travel and social media.

Founder and owner of travelblog.org Alistair Watters

The conference was officiated by The Hon. Minister of Tourism, Dato' Sri Ng Yen Yen with a keynote address.

To read what was presented during the conference CLICK HERE

Malaysia International Tourism Bloggers Conference and Awards

This year Ministry of tourism Malaysia will be organising the inaugural Conference (MITBCA2012) and coinciding with it is an award for bloggers who blog about Tourism and Malaysia. This event is in colloboration with Social Media Chambers of Malaysia. The conference will be held at Seri Pacific Hotel Kuala Lumpur on 8th and 9th May 2012 while the Awards at Saloma Bistro, in Jalan Ampang.

Organising this conference means Ministry of Tourism (MOTOUR) has took on social media to reach the public and promote Malaysia as a tourism destination while at the same time honouring tourism bloggers for helping promoting the country across the globe.

The two days conference is expected to be attended by social media aggregators, media personnels and those in the tourism industry. There are also invited speakers and I found one while doing a search on the internet. Of course I have registered myself.

The bloggers award will be held at Saloma Bistro just next to MOTOUR. Nomination for the award will still be open until 24th April and nomination criteria can be found HERE. Voting has already been open and will end on 1st of May 2012.

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I hope those who read this is generous enough to vote this blog and in appreciation to your vote, I humbly thank your effort in advance.