Elaborate arrangements are in place for the 31st Congress of International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), which is hosted by the Oman Journalists Association (OJA), in Muscat from May 31 to June 4 at the Oman Convention and Exhibition Center.
Nearly 350 journalists and media professionals from 60 countries are expected to take part in the 4-day conference, paper presentation, discussions, seminars and so on and so forth who will earmark the Sultanate of Oman to the world in terms of various parameters such as economic, tourism, investment, as well as cultural and historical components of the Sultanate of Oman which will be a major boost to tourism.
Various committees and subcommittees under the umbrella of the Omani Journalists Association (OJA), named external relations, media, marketing, events, secretarial and financial, work like an oiled machine and continue to hold their meetings on a daily basis and give things a fine touch.
Dotted plans are afoot in terms of receiving the lists of participants, obtaining entry visas to the Sultanate of Oman, reserving the conference venue, setting up delegations and accompanying events, in addition to preparing a media plan to benefit from this global media presence.
Regular communication is alive with the secretariat of the International Federation of Journalists in Brussels to follow up on developments regarding the needs and requirements of these meetings, which is to host elections for a new leadership for the next four years.
The Sultanate of Oman is expected to gain a great upper hand from this congress as, besides the tourism potential, the site visits arranged for the journalists and media professionals, as well as students of journalism and media in universities and colleges, are expected to benefit from the experiences from the conference.
The OJA Executive Committee hopes that the Muscat conference would be a new major landmark in the regional history of journalism. Also, the Omani Journalists Association will be able to assume its appropriate position in the international arena and the Asian Federation of Journalists, in addition to its presence in the General Secretariat and the leadership of the Union of Arab Journalists.
The Congress will also witness the election of a new leadership for IFJ, in addition that Muscat hosts during this event, the founding meeting of the Asian Journalists Association to elect its first new management board. The two outstanding events constitute a distinction in the international and Asian process work, 100 years after the establishment of IFJ.
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