REUNION HOSTS TRAVEL JOURNALISTS FROM GERMANY’S TOP 5 MEDIA HOUSES
(Posted 16th September 2014)
Der Spiegel, Die Frankfurter Allgemeine, Die Zeit, Die Presse and Die Neue Zuericher Zeitung are awe inspiring names in journalism and their travel sections generally considered to be on top of their class with weekly reviews of destinations and periodic live reports from those destinations they choose from among the many offers they have to visit. To get their top travel writers to comes all at once for a destination experience therefore has to be quite a tempting affair and the Reunion Tourism Board accomplished that feat this week.
The five, accompanied by IRT’s Germany representative Marie Christin Strecker and Air Austral’s Katharina Essman, landed at the Roland Garros International Airport of the island’s capital St. Denis and were soon after arrival – EU citizens do not require passport or customs controls as Reunion is one of France’s regions – on their way to explore and discover.
(Seen here at the meet and greet session with Ile de la Reunion Tourisme representatives0
The group and their guides will be on the island to experience a compact programme of activities which is to showcase to them the varied nature of the attractions awaiting tourists, covering ocean and terrestrial showpieces. From whale and dolphin watching to diving, from horseback riding into the rugged interior, from visits to the vanilla estates to the rum distilleries, from white water rafting to taking a helicopter to the rim of one the world’s most active volcanoes, the Piton de la Fournaise, the five will see it all. The various programme elements will be interspersed with discovering Creole cuisine and art, a key ingredient making Reunion what the island is today,
Reunion has in recent months aggressively promoted the island as a major long haul destination for Germans, where, without ever leaving the European Union’s territory they can enjoy a tropical island vacation, on the beach, actively hiking across hundreds of kilometres of well-marked trails with the safe assurance that they enjoy safety levels like when travelling from their native Germany across the border into France’s mainland.
Discover the attractions of Reunion Island by taking a virtual tour via www.reunion.fr or, if subscribed to these leading publications, read the upcoming travel articles in coming weeks and get a taste for this exotic piece of France in the deep of the Indian Ocean.
