Yesterday, 15 April, the Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications Juhan Parts opened the conference of the World Federation of Journalists and Travel Writers in Tallinn.
The 39 journalists of FIJET (World Federation of Journalists and Travel Writers) from 24 countries will be in Estonia from 14-19 April at the meeting organised by the Tourist Board of Enterprise Estonia. The honorary guests at the event are the President of FIJET, Tijani Haddad, who is the former Minister of Tourism of Tunisia and current Vice President of the World Tourism Organisation.
In his opening speech, Juhan Parts stressed the importance of tourism on the Estonian economy and expressed his satisfaction over the fact that FIJET has selected Estonia, where most of the journalists of the federation will be for the first time, as the venue for the conference. “The plenary session of FIJET gives us a good chance to introduce Estonia as a travel destination to the best travel journalists and thus be advertised in the world’s leading media publications,” said Tarmo Mutso, Director of the Tourist Board of Enterprise Estonia.
From 14-16 April, the journalists of FIJET will be in Tallinn, from 17-19 April, they will get acquainted with Saaremaa and Tartu. Enterprise Estonia is organising the visit of the tourism journalists to Estonia within the framework of the programme for introducing Estonia as a travel destination, which is co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund.
FIJET was founded in Paris in 1954 and is the oldest society of professional travel journalists in the world. FIJET has more than 900 members from over 40 countries; it is the largest internationally operating organisation of professional journalists in the world.
See more at: http://www.fijet-web.com
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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