The Tourism Media Award - The Golden City Gate: 2013 Already for the 12th Time

KOLN, GERMANY, December 22, 2012

Destinations, tour operators, hotels, event locations and all other tourism creators are invited to hand in their media marketing activities like corporate videos, webpages, print and online campaigns, innovative marketing ideas as well as music clips and road shows on http://www.the-golden-city-gate.com/en. The closing date is January 31st, 2013.

Wolfgang Jo Huschert, initiator of the Tourism Media Award - The Golden City Gate, expects this year many participants: "It's our goal to exceed last year's submissions of about 100 film and multimedia productions from 28 countries." He is strongly supported by his new partner, the tourism marketing company COMPASS GmbH from Cologne, who is also responsible for the revamped internet presence which includes the website and a brand new Facebook page.
The award ceremony takes place on March the 7th, 2013 during the world's largest tourism fair, the ITB in Berlin. Since the entire tourism industry gets together in Berlin during this time, each year the guest list reads as the "Who's Who" of the international tourism industry.

Everyone's a winner at the Tourism Media Award -The Golden City Gate: Destinations and tourism companies will profit from a good placement with a significant increase of publicity. But also participants who didn't achieve a high placement as well as the audience will profit from the award: The award sets new standards which can be used as a benchmark for all new media activities. So, the Tourism Media Award - The Golden City Gate stimulates the steady increase in quality standards of marketing activities in the tourism sector.

The Tourism Media Award - The Golden City Gate is the only competition in the tourism industry, which awards multimedia contributions on an international level - including movies, commercials, websites, print and online campaigns as well as road shows. To raise even more awareness on an international level, the new prefix Tourism Media Award was added. The awardees are the destinations and tourism companies, not their assigned filmmakers or advertising agencies. The competition has been setting new standards in tourism marketing for already more than 10 years. Since the first awards ceremony of the Golden City Gate in 2001, more than 800 contributions from around the world were evaluated by the jury, which consists of 50 independent experts of the tourism, film and marketing industry every year. The close partnership with the ITB emphasizes the high relevance of the award: BBC, CNN and Deutsche Welle are reporting regularly from the award ceremony of the Golden City Gate at the ITB.