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The Belgium journalist Gilbert Menne is the new winner of the FIJET Marco Polo international Award

© Text: Plamen Starev, FIJET EC member

The Travel Writing Awards “Marko Polo – famous travel writer” were held on 13th of December, organised by FIJET Croatia and co-organised by the Croatian Journalism Society’s Tourism Journalists Assembly at the Journalism Home in Zagreb. This was the 8th edition of awards for travel writers – for domestic journalists for travel articles about Croatia, a special award for a reportage on Zagreb, and for an international journalist and FIJET member for the best reportage from the FIJET congress in 2017. The intention is to award and entice domestic journalist to write travel articles, stories of Croatian regions, people, customs and traditions, to be used by tourism professionals as an incentive for new content, tourism offer or as motivation for tourists and media promotion of new tourism products and content. The goal is to affirm this specific form of journalism, develop tourism through interesting stories, myths, legends of certain tourism destinations which will attract tourists. The organisers are certain this award, named after the world’s first travel writer Marco Polo, besides making this specific journalism form more popular, will contribute for the new generations of tourism journalists to use their journal

Mrs Ludmila Novacká, President of FIJET Slovakia and Gilbert Menne, President of FIJET Belgium.

istic work as a contribution to the founding idea

The President of the Republic of Croatia, Mrs Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, accorded audience to the FIJET delegation.

of this award – confirming what Croatia can offer the world in terms of tourism. The FIJET Croatia Committee took the decision to award the reportage of Gilbert Menne from Tunisia, published in TRAVELLING NEWS by the Grand Prix Award for International FIJET reportage. International guests and journalists present at the awards were FIJET President Mr.Tijani Haddad, members of the FIJET Executive Board from Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey and Croatia, as well as representatives of national FIJET and International Tourism

Film Festival as a partner of FIJET.

NOMINATION OF TWO NEW MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF FIJET

During the last meeting of the Executive Committee held in Morokko, two new members were nominated: Mrs Ludmila Novacká, President of FIJET Slovakia and Gilbert Menne, President of FIJET Belgium.