The ever prevailing Petronas Twin Towers
" Kuala Lumpur is today the city of the petronas towers . However, the magnificent building has only been there since 1998. Many travel reports begin with that handy ' It had been 25 years since he stepped foot on the streets of Kuala Lumpur '. Something difficult to apply in this story because 25 years ago the population did not even appear on the map of the minimally interesting places to visit. Today is the sixth most visited city in the world , even ahead of New York, Paris, Rome, Barcelona or Madrid, according to the annual study of Euromonitor International . However it is still a exotic destination from our part of the globe". Thus began the report of ** Kuala Lumpur: the Babel towers ** , written by the Deputy Director of Condé Nast Traveler, Bernard Strong , who last night received the Malaysian Tourism Award for Best Report in a Foreign Language.
The celebration of the nineteenth edition of the ** Malaysia Tourism Awards **, took place in Kuala Lumpur, at the convention center ** Putra World Trade Center **. Here, and hand in hand Minister of Tourism and Culture of the country, Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz , we received the award "for the quality of the publication, the graphic design, the creativity of the presentation and the ability of the publication to persuade readers to travel to Malaysia", congratulations also to the photographer Alex del Rio , author of the graphic work of the report.
Two of the pages of the report
At the gala they delivered 50 prizes (from 14 categories and subcategories) and, as a novelty this year, the Best Documentary and the best Online Promotion of the destination were awarded. The event was attended by the biggest names in Malaysian politics, such as Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak , to celebrate the tourist activity of the country in the company of the Kuala Lumpur Philharmonic Orchestra and the dance corps of the Malaysian Royal House. A night of celebration in the city of the towers of Babel.
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Kuala Lumpur, the Towers of Babel
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