World Travel Awards president Graham Cooke has been welcomed to St. Petersburg ahead of the Europe Gala Ceremony 2017.

The red carpet event will take place in the prestigious Marble Hall in the Russian Museum of Ethnography tomorrow evening, September 30th.

In the build up to the event, Cooke, was welcomed to the city at an event hosted at Journalist House and attended by Andrey Mushkarev, chairman, Saint-Petersburg Committee for Tourism Development.

Also in attendance were World Travel Awards vice presidents Chris Frost and Sion Rapson, as well as Ekaterina Galanova, general director of event partners Dance Open, who will present a showcase of Russian entertainment at the Europe Gala Ceremony.