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Started from 2020, World Tourism Forum Institute’s events are entitled as Global Tourism Forum.
The Global Tourism Forum, or GTF for short, is an international collaboration platform focused on addressing the challenges for the travel industry. Combining the joint efforts of government agencies, industry stakeholders and academia, GTF strives to achieve sustainable development models for emerging travel markets, as well as devising strategies to ensure tourism growth.
World Tourism Forum Institute organizes several initiatives aiming to promote the hosting country internationally. As an initiative of WTFI, Global Tourism Forum organizes select activities designed to strengthen the host country’s branding abroad.
Global Tourism Forum also plays a leading role in attracting foreign direct investment to the target country, by working to identify business opportunities, promoting strategic events and lending support to foreign investors willing to allocate resources in target country.
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Promoting responsible, sustainable and worldwide accessible tourism
As the leading international tourism, development, and investment initiative of London based institution World Tourism Forum Institute, Global Tourism Forum promotes the countries in the fields of tourism development, economic growth, foreign direct investment, and sustainability and offers human resources support to the industry.
”The Global Tourism Forum (GTF) is an initiative of international institution World Tourism Forum Institute standing for the promotion of responsible, sustainable and worldwide accessible tourism.”
Global Tourism Forum is reshaping economies through tourism development. We work to maximize positive effects of tourism around the world, besides it is one of our main aims to minimize the negative impacts, which are obstacles in our way to achieve sustainable development goals in tourism globally.
GTF generates market knowledge, promotes competitive and sustainable tourism policies and instruments, fosters tourism education and training, and works to make tourism an effective tool for development through its events, masterplans, marketing, research and HR solutions.