India wins a Golden and Silver Star at the 2023 ITB, Berlin Golden City Gate Tourism Awards

Pune, 9 March 2023: The International “Golden City Gate Tourism Awards 2023” in the “TV/Cinema Commercials International and Country International” Category at ITB, Berlin 2023, awarded The Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, a Golden & Silver Star.

Shri Arvind Singh, Secretary (Tourism), Government of India, accepted the honours on March 8, 2023 at ITB, Berlin, which was taking place from March 7 to 9.

Each year, awards in a number of categories relating to the tourism and hospitality industries are given out by the Golden City Gate Tourism Multi-media Awards. An international creative multi-media competition called “Golden City Gate” is open to nations, cities, regions, and hotels. An international panel made up of tourism and film industry professionals judges the entries submitted for the prizes. The world’s top travel trade expo, ITB Berlin, hosts the yearly award presentation.

The Ministry developed the promotional movies and television ads that won accolades as part of its Post-Covid World Promotional Campaign on India Reopening. The new Incredible India brand films were created by the ministry of tourism to welcome global visitors to the nation following the pandemic. The local and international travel industries have widely disseminated these brand films for use in marketing and promotion.

The Ministry’s social media accounts, which have gotten positive reviews from all over the world, were also used to promote the films internationally. Voiceovers in nine different foreign languages, including German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic, have been added to the English-language commercials.