Etihad Airways has announced a multi-year partnership with Taste Festivals Ltd, organisers of the world’s leading restaurant events since 2004.

The airline, along with its Etihad Airways Partners, will have a presence at 15 Taste festivals scheduled in 2016, beginning on 10 March with Taste of Dubai, Taste of Hong Kong and Taste of Sydney.

Additional sponsored festivals will take place across five continents in important Etihad Airways destinations, such as Amsterdam, Johannesburg, London, Milan, Melbourne, Moscow, Paris, Perth, Rome and Toronto, and its home capital city of Abu Dhabi.

As part of Etihad Airways’ global partnership with Taste, the airline is creating a ‘Taste the World’ initiative to honor and celebrate rising culinary talents from each of the 13 Taste festivals outside the UAE.

The winners will earn a trip to Taste of Abu Dhabi from 3–5 November, where they will display their skills and compete against the airline’s celebrated Inflight Chefs.