NEWS> [NetGold] TOURISM: NEWS : CONFERENCE : MEDIA: ISSUES: Islam and Security Major Issues at Media Summit

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:38:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: David P. Dillard <jwne@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: NetGold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: NetGold <NetGold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [NetGold] TOURISM: NEWS : CONFERENCE : MEDIA: ISSUES: Islam and
     Security Major Issues at Media Summit

TOURISM: CONFERENCE : MEDIA: ISSUES: Islam and Security Major Issues at
Media Summit

04-25-2004  location: eTN Malaysia
author: Y. Sulaiman
Islam and Security Major Issues at Media Summit
ETurbo News
<http://travelwirenews.com/eTN/26APR2004.htm>

THE non-Muslim world's perception of Islam and security  for newsmen - on
the war front and home turf - remained the underlying topics at the
recently concluded Asia Media Summit 2004 in Kuala Lumpur. It is a prelude
to a global media summit scheduled to be launched in May 2005.

Despite its Asia tag, it was attended by some 400 participants from 50
countries representing 186 media organizations , which says
Alexander Thomson,  head of News World Asia " is the most important media
event in Asia, and in two years could be the most important in the world.
Hopefully, next year we will also have representatives from Latin
America."

Admitting it is not an easy task to bring the world's top media
practitioners under one roof, he managed to bring together Chris Cramer,
the head of CNN International, among the Summit's more visible sponsors,
together with heads of BBC and Reuters Television.

"In the past they have participated in such conferences only in Europe -
but never together,"

The global three-day Summit  themed ' Challenges of Multi-religious,
Multi-ethnic and Multi-cultural Society ' was slated to be an opportunity
for Malaysia to present to the world Malaysia's  experience in
nation-building, through its ' unity in diversity ' concept.

"By bringing the world's media," says Noordin Sopiee, organizing
co-chairman of the Summit, " they will write their own stories and
discover this undiscovered  story and country."

Adds  Thomson  " Through  dialogue, understanding, and tolerance we want
to promote to the world , friendship and networking to foster greater
understanding among media professionals."

<snip>

" Media and Islam has drawn great focus since Islam is generally
misunderstood in the West. At present, rather than promoting  greater
understanding there seems to be greater misunderstanding  of the way
certain issues are portrayed in the western media. If you take Western
broadcast for instance, sometimes the portrayal of Islam is quite
misguided and confused."

" Malaysia is the right location to highlight media in Islam and media in
a multi-cultural society."

Damascus Danish Institute director Dr Joergen Baek Simonsen, says in
Denmark it is very difficult for the media to give a balanced report on
news relating to Islam, yet there has not been other religion that has
caught the attention of the world.

" Not many Muslims would engage in dialogues with non-Muslims about the
religion, despite the fact that so many issues had arisen over the last
few years concerning it."

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The full article may be read at the URL above.

Also reported in this issue of ETurbo News:

04-25-2004  location: eTN
author: Thomas Steinmetz
Spain to reveal impact of March 11 Madrid bombing on tourism
World Travel and Tourism Councils 4th Global Travel and Tourism Summit
will address the impact of the March 11 Madrid bombing.

04-25-2004  location: Iraq
author: Reuters
Tourists picnic while Iraq burns
FAMILIES picnic beside a foaming waterfall in the Kurdish mountain resort
of Behal, where only the watchful presence of plainclothes security men
reminds visitors of the violence raging elsewhere in Iraq.

04-24-2004  location: China
author: AP
China suspects new SARS cases as travel holiday nears

04-25-2004  location: eTN Uganda
author: Prof. Wolfgang H. Thome
News from Uganda, the Pearl of Africa
NEW LEGISLATION FOR TOURISM ON THE WAY
Under the various stages of technical cooperation with the Uganda
Government efforts have now gone underway to rewrite legislation governing
the tourism sector in Uganda. The various laws date back to 1964 and 1968
and are generally considered out of touch and in effect out of use in the
current day business environment. Hotel licensing for instance is
suspended until such time, that the new legislation has been passed, and
enforcement of a number of issues has been made rather difficult under the
old, out of date laws.
Prof. Kit Carson L. Jenkins from the UK is the technical advisor for the
Ministry of Tourism in Uganda, to develop the new state of the art laws in
conjunction with Ugandas tourism private sector stakeholders.

04-25-2004  location: eTN Poland
author: Marcin Majchrzak
Poland unveils Internet system for tourist info
AFTER years of preparing Poland finally got its own Internet System of
Tourist Information (ISIT, the whole name is The Internet Tourist
Information and Polands Promotion System). The main part in realization of
that project took Polish Tourist Organization (POT), what was one of its
main status cores.


Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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