Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Palestine Launch New Web Site
OCTOBER 4, 2007. The Tourism4Peace Forum (T4PF) is pleased to announce that its Web site is now on line at www.Tourism4Peace.org, and can also be accessed at www.Tourism4Peace.com. The Web site offers an insight into one of today's most prestigious and dedicated group of travel executives and leading travel industry experts from Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Palestine who work together toward facilitating border crossings and obtaining freedom of movement of tourists and tourism professionals across the region. Chairman of the Tourism4Peace Forum is Michael Nazzal, Chairman of the Board of the Jordan Hotel Association.
The new Tourism4Peace Web site offers links into press releases, meetings and articles and research including additional information on Forum sponsors and contact information. Announcing the launch of the new site, Janos Damon, the Secretary General of the Forum, said, "We are finally prepared to introduce the concept of the Tourism4Peace Forum to the world, and the new Web site allows us an opportunity to keep our members informed and attract more like minded-support to our endeavor".
This modern day peace forum had its origins years ago in the Israel-Palestinian Tourism Forum which had similar goals. But the true beginning was in January 2005, when the Peres Center for Peace, in cooperation with the Israeli Hotel Managers Association, organized a regional tourism conference, entitled: "Regional Tourism in the Middle East - a New Era." Thirty tourism professionals from Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Israel took part in the conference, the first of its kind in five years. Tourism4Peace was then set into motion.
About Tourism4Peace: The mission of the Tourism4Peace Forum (T4PF) is to advance peace in the Middle East through tourism, since its members believe that tourism means hospitality, - welcoming strangers, getting to know people and developing friendships. The Forum's aims include developing incoming tourism in the area; facilitating border crossings and obtaining freedom of movement of tourists and tourism professionals in the region and encouraging governmental agencies to assist in this effort. Future plans call for - educational trips of travel staff from the United States and Europe to visit the region, joint road shows consisting of Egyptian, Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian tourism executives and joint workshops and seminars. All activities of the T4PF are accompanied and supported by the Peres Center for Peace http://www.peres-center.org, an independent, non-profit, non-partisan, non-governmental organization founded in 1996 by Nobel Peace Laureate, former Prime Minister and present President of Israel, Shimon Peres, with the aim of furthering his vision in which people of the Middle East region work together to build peace through cooperation and development, and people-to-people interaction.
Further information is available at: http://www.Tourism4Peace.org; .com
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