A travel media agency overseeing one of the largest tourism networking conferences in the UK has been forced to disinvite Israel’s Ministry of Tourism from appearing due to threats made against its staff.
This year’s IMM conference, located at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Westminster, will be held on February 19-20 and connects travel writers with tourism boards from around the world.
TravMedia, the agency responsible for the conference, announced on X/Twitter Monday that Israel’s Government Tourist Office are “no longer attending IMM 2024.”
They added that despite striving to “remain neutral in matters of geopolitics,” in the run up to this year’s IMM members of their staff “have been subject to a campaign of personal intimidation and harassment.
“The safety and wellbeing of our staff remains our priority and it has therefore necessitated this decision,” the company said.
