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Congress<br />
The 60 th FIJET Congress:<br />
TOURISM & CULTURE,<br />
WHAT RELATION?<br />
WHAT FUTURE?<br />
SİDAL YAŞAR<br />
sidal.yasar@live.com<br />
f sidalyasar<br />
The 60th Congress of the World Federation of<br />
Tourism Journalists and Writers (FIJET) was organized<br />
in Morocco between 29 November and 3 December<br />
2018. Under the patronage of the King Mohammed VI,<br />
FIJET Morocco (AMJET) hosted 250 tourism journalists<br />
as the members of FIJET from 24 different national<br />
associations in the city of Marrakech. The theme<br />
of the congress was the relationship between culture<br />
and tourism, as well as the future of that relationship.<br />
The annual congress was held at<br />
the Museum of Water on the 1st<br />
of December. The opening ceremony<br />
started off with a dance<br />
show of a Sicilian folkloric group<br />
which was followed by opening<br />
speeches. During his speech, the<br />
President of FIJET, Tijani Haddad<br />
emphasized the importance<br />
of the culture for tourism and<br />
pointed out the problems that<br />
the industry faces by underlining<br />
the need of a collective action for<br />
solving those problems with the<br />
following words: "We are devoted to promote tourism<br />
around world which respects environment and culture,<br />
while increasing peace and better understanding. We<br />
do not consider tourism destinations as competitors,<br />
but complementary to one another. Unfortunately, the<br />
climate change and terrorism have destructive impacts<br />
on many tourism destinations around the world.<br />
However, they cannot be combated only by one country,<br />
and there should be an international and collective<br />
strategy which is financed and shared by all."<br />
FIJET HONOURED THE<br />
IMPORTANT TOURISM JOURNALISTS<br />
Following Haddad’s speech, the Minister of Tourism<br />
and Transportation of Morocco, Mohamed Sajid<br />
expressed their genuine tradition of hospitality in Morocco<br />
and stated the followings: "We are very proud<br />
to have a spirit of openness, tolerance, dialogue and<br />
friendship in our country." In the end of the opening<br />
ceremony, FIJET did not forget to honour some of the<br />
important figures from the field of tourism journalism.<br />
The tributes were paid to Mustapha Trai, Ahmed<br />
Zghari, Moulay Mustapha Alaoui and Miguel Garcia<br />
Breira respectively.<br />
76 Ocak / Şubat / Mart | 2019<br />
January / February / March
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