Smile, you're on tourist officer cam

I was about to give the web 2.0 talk to some national tourist office people the other day, when one stood up and asked if he could take a photo – of me, my slides, the room, everybody there. No problem, but why? Turns out his bosses in a certain land (quite far east of here), insists he posts photographic proof that he attends all the events in his diary, presumably to make sure has hasn’t been slackening in his effort to promote their lovely country. Extraordinary.
Stranger still, to my mind, is that he has put up with this nonsense for almost ten years. I would last 10 minutes before I told them where to stick their Pentax.