ABOUT THE GLOBAL TOURISM FILM FESTIVAL

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The Global Tourism Film Festival (GTFF) is a global competition dedicated to the recognition of excellence in all audiovisual content related to tourism promotion and destination branding. Its mission is to advance the competitiveness of destinations, tourism products, and services by stimulating creativity and innovation, honoring the best tourism film projects, and giving tourism films greater national and international visibility on this Film Festival held in April 2023.
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GTFF admits films where tourism is the central part of their synopsis, unveiling beautiful destinations, cultures, traditions, lifestyle, history, created by professionals and enthusiasts. The Festival objective is to get them across to an ever-widening audience as a powerful medium that inspires creativity, encourages reflection, and compels exploration.

With films as a powerful tool, it allows audiences to experience a dynamic journey of the location in a unique and personal way, and research has shown travelers choose a destination based on television and movie locations that contribute the success of cinema history.

The Festival's vision is to establish an endless source of information and become the meeting point to offer inspiration on tourism development. GTFF will host numerous opportunities to connect with enthusiastic new audiences, film industry professionals, media, and tourism industry from many parts of the world, providing an excellent networking forum for all attendees.

GTFF refers to the organized effort to utilize the festival as a central incentive to attract cultural tourists, consumers, film professionals, and the importance of tourism for the film industry. Tourism contributes to the local economy, creating opportunities for community involvement, togetherness, and enhancing destinations.

Tourism Operators, Boards, and Agencies are increasingly relying on film to market their products and destinations to the world. GTFF therefore provides an international platform for filmmakers to present their creative tourism work through the goal they love.

GTFF host city changes every year to a city that complements the tourism mission of the Festival.
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Mission of the Global Tourism Film Festival

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• To acknowledge and reward talented tourism filmmakers
• To present public films and productions about tourist destinations and products
• To promote the latest trends in tourism film making
• To incline the interest of the tourist business and production companies towards tourism film products
• To inspire film industry professionals to turn their efforts and specialize in tourism film making
• To draw the attention of film production companies, media, tourism, and the public at one platform
• To create conditions for highly effective promotional content