The Golden Apple was awarded to the city of Ypres (Belgium) for the city’s exceptional efforts in preserving and enhancing its cultural and historical heritage in function of modern tourism trends. The official delegation of FIJET visited during five days Ypres and the Westfront of First World War where 600.000 people lost their lives. The city itself was 90% destroyed and entirely reconstructed after the war. The delegation visited the main cemeteries, the Westfront visitor’s centre in Nieuwpoort, the Trench of Death, the Memorial museum Passchendaele and the Flanders Fields Museum. It visited also the important medieval curiosities of Ypres. During the Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate, organised every day of the year since 1928 in memory of the death soldiers, President Tijani Haddad lay a wreath in the name of FIJET. The president of the Golden Apple... more
Après un séjour réussi dans la province de Chefchaouen, la délégation de la Fédération Internationale des Journalistes et Ecrivains du Tourisme (FIJET) se sont rendus à Tanger où un accueil chaleureux lui a été réservé par les membres de l’Association marocaine des journalistes et écrivains du tourisme (AMJET), par le CRT, et la direction de l’Institut Supérieur International du Tourisme (ISITT).
C’est dans un cadre agréable que l’ISITT a offert un somptueux déjeuner, le jeudi 12 mai 2016, aux membres de la FIJET venus des quatre coins du monde. Lequel déjeuner a été suivi par une présentation de l’Institut et de la ville.
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The upcoming UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22) to be organized by Morocco in November 7-18, 2016 aims at proceeding forward from the negotiation phase to the stage of implementation of the objectives set out in the Paris Agreement.
The conference, to be held in Marrakech, will highlight the efforts that should be exerted to intensify international action on the climate before 2020 and is expected to lead to further progress on the commitments made at the last conference of Paris which demonstrated unprecedented global collaboration and commitment towards the stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous interference with the climate system.
The salient elements of the Moroccan approach and vision for the COP22 are:
1) Maintaining momentum and mobilization for climate encouraging more Parties... more
