The world’s best tourism ads have been awarded at the Grand Prix CIFFT in Vienna on Tuesday night. A full list of the winners can be found here.
From over more than 3,000 entries, a People’s Choice Award, eleven nominees and two Grand Prix winners for film and commercial have been determined and awarded at the Ceremony at the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber in Vienna.
Among them were films from Austria, Azerbaijan, France, Germany, India, Latvia, Portugal, Spain and United Arab Emirates. The audience, consisting of experts from the tourism and film industry, ambassadors and press representatives, was impressed by the quality of the films.
The Grand Prix for the World best tourism film went to the production “Insider’s Guide to Riga” produced by DDB Latvia and nonsense.tv for Riga Tourism Development Bureau.
The Grand Prix for the World best commercial went to the for Department of Culture and Tourism of Abu Dhabi for the spot “Abu Dhabi – Your Extraordinary Story”,
Produced by M&C Saatchi UAE and Boomtown Productions to developed in line with Abu Dhabi’s cultural heritage but to also allow for the breadth of experiences and adventures that can be had leaving visitors with their own extraordinary stories to take home and share.
You can check out both winning spots below: