travel journalists

FIJET, the World Federation of Journalists and Travel Writers, was founded in 1954 and today brings together over 900 journalists, writers, photographers and freelance travel journalists. Members of FIJET include 25 national travel journalist organisations as well as individuals from countries without national associations. FIJET Slovenia rejoined the Federation in 2006; Slovenian travel journalists had already organised the 1985 FIJET Congress, which was hosted in Portorož.

In recent years the FIJET Congress has been held in Turkey, Tunisia, the USA, Croatia, Morocco, the Czech Republic and Egypt. The annual meeting is attended by 250 delegates on average; record attendance (464 delegates) was registered in the USA in 1992.

travel journalists congress

The FIJET Congress in Slovenia will start in Ljubljana, and participants will also visit the Šmarješke Toplice health resort, Postojna, Portorož, Nova Gorica and Bled. In the run-up to the Congress, FIJET Slovenia, in association with the STB, prepared a presentation of Slovenia at the congress in Egypt, launched the official website and will be providing promotional material on Slovenia from March to September in the form of monthly newsletters sent to all 900 FIJET members.