FIJET Croatia announces the presentation of the annual MARCO POLO Award
FIJET Croatia and a Section of Tourist Journalists from the Croatian Journalists Society will award prizes at the annual ceremony in Zagreb, on December 12, 2013.During the 2006 FIJET World Congress in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, the idea of a very special award for travel journalism was presented by Tina Cubrilo to the FIJET Executive Committee and Board of Directors. She presented the award –a specially designed and crafted sculpture created by master craftsman and Croatian artist Lujo Lozica who is from the island Korcula. FIJET have been considering the idea for a longer period and then FIJET Croatia decided to establish an award called Marco Polo – A Famous Journalist and to promote Croatia as the homeland of Marco Polo. Marco Polo Award “ is an annual prize to a foreign colleague for the best story about host country of the latest FIJET Congress and an annual prize for croatian journalists for the contribution greatly to the travel reporting in Croatia. Awarding prizes Fijet Croatia would like to encourage foreign colleagues to write about host countries.