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Africa
Travel Magazine's Globetrotter invites travel
agents and tourism specialists on Morocco tour
December
3-8, 2002
 Associate
Editor Muguette Goufrani is excited about this
December's ATA Cultural and Ecotourism Symposium in
Fez Morocco. She knows the country well. For
details, fax her at 604-681-6595 or e-mail
africa@dowco.com.
Muguette's background as an airline agent, tour
guide and travel agency professional has been the
key to her media success, resulting in an ATA
Travel Industry Founders Award in Cape Town, South
Africa. As a "career globetrotter," Muguette's
articles for Air Highways and Africa Travel
Magazine have an authentic, multicultural flavor,
thanks to painstaking research and the confidence
of having lived the experience (walked the walk).
Her career positions have
included Royal Air Maroc, AOL
Airlines,
Air Afrique, Matson Lines, Palm Springs Resorts,
Club Med, Tahiti Tours and Noumea Tours. Upon
graduating from College du Paris, she launched her
career in Casablanca,
Morocco,
where the Goufrani family has operated a tour
company for generations.
 Award
in Africa: A dual
citizen (France - Canada)
and member of Vancouver, BC, Canada's
Francophone
Community,
Muguette prompted the decision to make our travel
magazines bilingual, extending their worldwide
reach and influence Aside from our own publications
and web sites, Muguette has been featured
extensively on African television, radio and print
media, both English and French. Her first
assignment was the 1996 ATA Ecotourism Symposium in
Marrakech, Morocco. This was followed by a National
Geographic - American Airlines sponsored project in
Haiti, plus ATA Congresses in Benin, Tanzania,
Ghana, Ethiopia and South Africa. Her most recent
extended trips to Africa, were Congresses and
overland land tours of Cameroon (December 2001) and
Guinea (May 2002). Muguette returns to Africa in
December 2002, for an ATA event in Fez, Morocco,
following a Cross Canada Road Show Tour and a
Conferencein Atlantic
City,
New Jersey. Next year's African agenda includes
events in Zambia and Tanzania. Travel Agents
wishing to join her are invited to e-mail
Africa@dowco.com
 The
World Scene: Muguette's travels have included
Europe, the Americas, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia,
China, Japan, Russia, Australia the Caribbean, and
most of Europe. Active with the Africa
Travel Association and
PATA, she focuses her efforts on tourism to and
from the world's Francophone community.
Muguette has lived and worked
in seven
African countries - Morocco, Algeria, Gabon, Cote
d'Ivoire, Senegal,
Madagascar and Seychelles. She has also worked in
Guadeloupe, Tahiti, New Caledonia, Cambodia, India,
France, Canada, Alaska, California, New York and
Nevada. Other travels have included Western Europe,
South America, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Japan,
Russia, Greece and Australia
Association
Involvement: Active with (ATA) Africa Travel
Association and (PATA) Pacific Asia Tourist
Association, Muguette provides translations for all
media. A keen observer of current affairs, she is
anxious to receive and pass on news of trade and
tourism developments and events in any part of the
world. E-mail airhwy@dowco.com
Photos: (a)
Muguette in typical Beninese hat (b) Muguette with
Masai tribesmen in Kenya, East Africa (c) Muguette
at historic site in France.
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