One Week Left to Showcase Your Best Stories at MTMA2021!

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media
OutReach – 1 October 2021 – Both international and local media and
influencers have a week left to participate and submit their stories to the
Medical Travel Media Awards (MTMA) 2021. MTMA is the first international medical
travel media award which honours and lauds the outstanding work and contributions
of both media and influencers, advocating and promoting medical travel particularly
about Malaysia Healthcare.

Mohd Daud
Mohd Arif, Chief Executive Officer of MHTC said, “The MTMA is open for
submission until 8 October 2021. You have one week left to polish your best Malaysia
Healthcare and medical travel stories and submit them for consideration. To
date, we have received over 200 quality entries from local and international
participants and are looking for more award-winning stories. We truly recognise
that media, freelancers and influencers have been playing an instrumental role
in growing and shaping Malaysia’s reputation as a healthcare destination and we
hope to leverage MTMA as a platform to celebrate their great achievements.”

This year, all participants have the
chance to submit for multiple award categories, namely the Best Print Medical
Travel Report, Best Online Medical Travel Report, Best Broadcast Medical Travel
Feature, Medical Travel Editorial Team of the Year, Medical Travel Journalist
of the Year, and the new category – Best Medical Travel Influencer. Winners will be able to take home cash prizes up to RM100,000.

Submissions
will be assessed by a mixed panel of regional judges against a comprehensive points-based
scoring system. The judging criteria will focus on five areas, namely the
quality of research, quality of technique or presentation, creativity, content,
and digital or social reach and shareability. The judging team will be overseen
by Mohd Daud Mohd, Chief Executive Officer of MHTC as the Chief Judge and led
by Manminder Dhillon, Chief Executive Officer of Supernewsroom as the Head
Judge.

MTMA
accepts articles, videos and social media postings related to promoting
Malaysia Healthcare and the medical travel industry. Additionally, given the
impact of the pandemic on the industry, news reports and stories related to
COVID-19 are welcomed as well. For material
eligibility, entries for MTMA2021 need to be dated between 21 October 2020 and 8
October 2021. All entries must be submitted by 5.00pm on 8 October 2021 (MYT)
to MTMA’s website.

The MTMA2021 Virtual Awards Presentation Ceremony will take place on 9
December 2021 to announce the winners. Aside from the winner announcement, all
participants are encouraged to join the event to partake in the amazing lucky
draws.

For more information and submission details on MTMA2021, visit https://www.mhtc.org.my/mtma/ and follow MTMA’s Facebook page for the latest updates at https://www.facebook.com/MyMTMA/.