50th anniversary of Fijet Slovenian Association
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first Association of Travel Journalists of Slovenia, which was founded in April 1965, FIJET Slovenia organized Round table Media and tourism with the theme „Is specialized Travel Journalism dying out?“ and festive evening reception on the Castle of Ljubljana on December 1st 2015
Messages from the Pannel
• Tijani Haddad: „Cooperation, cohesion and permanent dialogue between Governments, stakeholders and Media are necessary conditions for sustainable and durable Tourism.“
•Sandra Carvao: „Travel journalists should nowadays focus on telling stories of people who found in tourism opportunity for employment, development of local regions, act in sustainable way and resist globalisation through preserving the culture and identity.„
•Petra Lesjak Tušek: „Covering the field of tourism regarding also the current global unstable political and economic environment in which actual migrant and human crisis is definitely a challenge that requires even more and more competent journalists. „
•Mag. Irene Stelzmüller: „Bloggers are not journalists, a professional travel journalist has deeper knowledge of tourism industry.“
•Eva Štravs Podlogar: „Travel journalism is essensial for creating public opinion about tourism industry and for influencing the dessision makers.“
•Maja Pak: „Tourism needs critical and objective travel journalists.“
•Petra Stušek: „I miss profesional travel journalists and editors, journalists with name and surname.!
•Drago Bulc: „Specialized travel journalists are needed also in the future, their editors should enable them permanent education.“