Muguette
Goufrani of Africa Travel
Magazine: Portrait of a
Globetrotter
Award
in Africa:
Born
in Casablanca, Morocco,
Muguette
is
our Associate Editor and a
member of Vancouver Canada's
Francophone
Community. She 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 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, Zanzibar,
Guinea, Zambia, Morocco, South
Africa, Cameroon, Kenya,
Nigeria, Djibouti and Egypt
(several locations more than
once). To contact her e-mail
airhwy@smartt.com
Muguette's
background as an airline
agent, tour guide and travel
agent 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 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, Cica Citroen
Automobiles, UTA
Airlines,
Air Afrique, Matson Lines,
Palm Springs Resorts, Club
Med, Tahiti Tours, Messageries
Maritimes (Shipping) 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.
Quick
Now? Why is Africa
Magazine always at the top of
the list when readers do a
search for Africa Fashion or
Africa Travel Fashion on North
America's leading search
engines? Much has to do with
the magazine's Associate
Editor, Muguette Goufrani, her
determination, imagination,
perseverance and sparkling
personality. Thanks to her
effort,
we're
#1
for Africa Fashions
on
Google, MSN and Yahoo
.
