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Founder and Director of AMA Comunicaciones, in Chile. Staff member of Latinreps, an international tourism representation company.

Specialist in cultural trips & niche, has developed destination management with Chile, Turkey, Uruguay and Costa Rica, through communications management, branding, promotion to relevant audiences, participation in fairs and workshops, organization of Press and Fam tours. Lover of history, gastronomy and travel, she has been invited to interviews and panels on branding and design of tourism experiences in different media at national and international level.

A Chilean leader series “Al sur del Mundo” inspired him to create and design a journey through the history and culture of the people, calling this research and dissemination project “Recomiendo Chile”.

Parallel to this work and NGOs, Alejandro has developed series and materials for documentaries and audiovisual material Pedagogy in America, Asia and the Caribbean, under the concepts of sustainability and food autonomy of the communities.

In 2017 he was invited as a speaker at the 1st International Ecotourism Film Festival Terres Catalunya in Tortosa, Spain, and in 2018 becomes part of the International Jury of this Festival.

He’s main motivations are the sustainable development of communities and tourism development, taking care of the environment and protecting natural resources for future generations.

He also completed his master of architecture at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran. His researches focus on a substantial amount of investigation in vernacular architecture and tourism studies and their application in scientific and business problems. He demonstrates the feasibility of his ideas by implementing the knowledge of vernacular architecture and integrating it into the architectural design of residential and recreational complexes, mostly in tourism destinations of Iran. He is a member of founding committee and advisory board of Euro-Asia Tourism Studies Association and a founding member of Experimental Research in Architecture, Societies and Innovative Territories international group.

Arthur has published works mainly on film tourism, motivations for slum tourism, image of tourist destinations, gastronomic tourism and active tourism. In the industry, he worked in destination management organizations in Brazil, in areas such as project coordination, accessibility in tourist facilities, receptive tourism statistics and tourism inventory; besides acting in an educational tourism initiative in Spain. He is currently engaged in research and is an Assistant Professor at Lusófona University of Porto.

He is the recipient of ‘Young Teacher Welcome Award’ (2016) and ‘Aspiring Researcher Award’ (2017) by Indian Hospitality Congress and also received ‘Global Education and Corporate Leadership Award (GECL)-2018’ for being Best Young Researcher. He is editor of Indian Journal of Applied Hospitality and Tourism Research and also associated with the editorial board of many journals of repute. He is also Co-convener of India International Hotel Travel Tourism Research Conference’, India. His specialization includes Hospitality Management, Tourism Administration & Management, Service Marketing, Relationship Marketing and Online Marketing.

He served ART&TUR – International Tourism Film Festival, Portugal as Jury Member for three consecutive terms (2016-2018) and also a life member of International Film and Television Club.

Caroline is deeply entrenched in tourism and is currently a member of various Committees, forums and boards in the Tourism Industry, including the SABS TC228 Committee and Chair of Service Excellence in Tourism.  Caroline has been appointed to the FEDHASA (Federated Hospitality Association of Southern Africa) Inland Board. Previously she held positions as president of the National Accommodation Association of South Africa (NAA-SA), Director and Board Member of the Tourism Business Council of South Africa (TBCSA), member of the FEDHASA Large Hotel Group Committee, member of the TGCSA committee, Chairperson of the National Tourism Sector Strategy – Tourism Growth and Development, Chairperson of the Sustainable Development committee for the Regional Tourism Organisation of Southern Africa (RETOSA) and  regularly presents training for the STPP on Sustainable Tourism Awareness and Staff Green Training.  She has been instrumental in many changes at regulatory level to create an enabling environment for Sustainable Tourism and represents sustainable tourism issues at the parliamentary portfolio committee on a regular basis.  Caroline also regularly appears as a guest speaker at various tourism forums country wide. Caroline is passionate about sustainable tourism and is seen in the industry as a leader in driving awareness and implementation amongst small business. Caroline has helped the small tourism sector to move forward and to being recognized as a significant economic contributor with the potential of leading sustainability in tourism.

Cheryl has starred in various TV Advertising Campaigns and works as an Art Department Professional in the Irish Film & TV Industry. Her studies in Fine Art, Social Science and Film are central to her passion for Travel. A trip to Zakinthos Island in Greece lead to her enthusiasm for Travel Film and she firmly regards Ireland as a place that has a wealth of story and talent to contribute to the Travel Film and Film Tourism market. She loves to collaborate creatively, is endlessly curious and believes people and places are intrinsically connected. Her most recent projects include Amblin Entertainment’s (U.S.A) “The Turning” and Out of Orbit’s (Northern Ireland) “Normal People” due for release later this year.

2019 – Jury of the ART&TUR Festival – International Tourism Film Festival;

2016 – Jury of the Talents Contest “RM Talents”, integrated in the Youth Week of Rio Maior;

2014 – Currently: Play producer of the amateur theatre group “+ Teatro” in partnership with the city of Rio Maior;

2010 – Currently: Invited Assistant Teacher in the Superior Teaching, courses of Degree in Social Service, touristic Animation and Events Management; CET of Social Service and Communitary Development, and Management of touristic Animation; TESP of Adventure and Nature Animation and Tourism (Polytechnic Institute of Leiria – Superior School of Education and Social Sciences in Leiria and Superior School of Tourism and Maritime Technology in Peniche).

2010 – 2018: Technical Teacher specialized in Professional Courses (Sociocultural Recreation, Childhood Support, Environmental and Rural Tourism and Psychosocial Support).

2008 – 2018: Teacher of Adult Education and Formation (EFA), Technological Component (IEFP of Leiria, Knowhow, Soprofor, Frouco Henriques Associated).

2004 – 2010: Technical Director of a component of support to the family of the Schools of Cruz da Areia, Telheiro and Barreira, in Leiria (Chief Entity of Parents Association with partnership of Leiria’s City Hall).

This paved the way for him to explore videography, photography, motion graphics and color grading – all of which ultimately led to directing. This versatility proved more than helpful in realizing his vision in telling stories.

His oeuvre is an eclectic mix of digital films, documentaries, lifestyle features, motion graphics explainer videos, and corporate films for both local and renowned international brands.

His tourism film for the Tubbataha Reefs in Palawan, Philippines titled “Tubbataha: A National Treasure,” won in several documentary/tourism film festivals across the globe, including in the 10th edition of Art&Tur Film Festival. He is also a jury member in the 12th Art&Tur International Tourism Film Festival in Portugal and the 2nd Japan World’s Tourism Film Festival.

Between 2001 and 2011, he produced TV shows and documentaries in Brazil and Europe. During the same period, he scripted, photographed and edited different audiovisual content for the internet, such as teasers, trailers, videocasts and minidocs. He carried out socio-educational projects using cinema as a tool for social transformation for young people from the periphery and the interior of the Amazon. He is the creator and coordinator of the “Mostra de Cinema da Amazônia”, a project that has already toured 5 countries, 20 cities and screened over 180 films; director of audiovisual productions for the “Sabor Selvagem” project, including a documentary series for TV, coordinator of Mekaron Creative Center for script development for TV and film, vice president and project coordinator of Instituto Cultural Amazônia Brasil and general director of the production company, Mekaron Filmes.

After moving to France in 2007, he has been working as a consultant for large corporations. In order to answer the question, “how can we start an information related project that works?”, he wrote, “Skip! The Art of Avoiding Projects: An Ecological Way of Living in the Information Age”. In his book, he tackles the root of the problem, thereby laying the groundwork for an innovative ecology of the project. Thanks to a multidisciplinary approach relying on scientific discoveries and many examples drawn from everyday life, the author proposes SKIP! as the watchword for avoiding useless projects before it is too late. In 2017, he specialized in Strategies for Cyber Security Awareness at the Institut National de Hautes Etudes de la Sécurité et de la Justice [Institute for Advanced Studies in Security and Justice] at the Ecole Militaire in Paris. Nowadays, he is investigating the opportunities and the weakness of smart destinations.

PhD in Anthropology. Specialization in Tourism Anthropology, Politics and Images of Culture and Museology, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, New University of Lisbon and Master in Heritage and Museology, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, New University of Lisbon.

She is currently an integrated researcher at TECHN&ART – Center for Technology, Restoration and Valorization of the Arts of IPT and collaborative researcher at CRIA-FCSH-UNL, GOVCOPP-UA and CiTur-IPL.

Her projects and publications focus on these research areas: Tourism; Anthropology; Heritage and Museology.e, museology and event management.

Has worked as Photographer and Director in, Cinema, Corporate, Music, Arts and Education, developing Short-Film, Institutional, Promotional, Events and Gastronomy videos and photography. Was an awarded winner for two consecutive years, 2012 and 2013, at the International Tourism Film Festival, Art&Tur, as Director and Producer of two Gastronomical videos from the concept project called Videlicious, focused on the promotion of Restaurants at the Hotel Industry.

Currently he is a partner in the media production company Filmsnòmades and teaches at ESARDI (School of Art and Design in Amposta, Catalonia).

He has a Master’s Degree in 3D and post-production for VFX at FX Animation Barcelona 3D School, April 2015. Graduated in Audiovisual Communication (Media), June 2011, by the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). He complemented his career by film studies at FAMU (Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts In Prague, Czech Republic).

He was an audiovisual instructor at NBAcademia, Shame and Cinemalogia at the University of Coimbra. Producer and director at Faço Filmes. He is film commissioner of Alentejo and Ribatejo. Jury of several film festivals. Director of the UNESCO Center for Image, Sound and Creativity. Graduate in Cinema by ECA-USP, São Paulo. Doctorate in Communication Sciences at the Universidade Lusófona.

He is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Tourism and Maritime Technology – Institute Polytechnic of Leiria where he was the head Coordinator of the Tourism Research Group (GITUR) from the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria from 2013-2016.
He was Executive-director of the European Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Recreation. 
João is currently a full researcher from the Center for Geographical Studies of the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon (CEG/IGOT).

John Driedonks has created in 2010 the documentary making international course “CampusDoc”, together with his buddy and colleague Brian Maston, in cooperation with City University of New York (CUNY). During this twenty week crash course 20 students pitch, research, produce, crowdfund, film, edit and distribute their documentary concepts. Distribution starts after the premiere during CampusDoc (International) Film Festival CDFF.
As lecturer (2006-2018) at the School of Journalism,  Utrecht University of Applied Sciences UUAS (The Netherlands) Driedonks coordinated  a real-life converged newsroom with a focus on broadcasting TV talkshows, and web, all aired on the local TV station. Between 1982-2006 John was a journalist, finally as editor-in-chief of RTV Utrecht (radio-TV + web).

She worked for the Ministry of Environment of Lithuania as the PR Manager of Lithuanian Pavilion in EXPO’98 in Lisbon. From 1998 to 2014 she was the Head of Chancellery of the Embassy of Lithuania in Portugal. For the last 5 years she has been running an accommodation business.

She is also translator of Lithuanian/Portuguese and Portuguese/Lithuanian.

I was also the director of 98Live, a multiplatform with 13 hours of live audiovisual content from 2015 to 2017. Currently, she’s part of New York-based Storyhunter global videojournalism company and has several documentaries published on vehicles like Huffington Post and Yahoo !

Then joined the Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry as a Business Promotion Manager. In 2004, started to work at the Riga City Council as the Director of Riga Tourism Coordination and Information Centre. For 7 years, the Centre was responsible for the tourism development in the city of Riga. Later, she joined the Foreign Affairs Office of the Riga City Council. In 2008, organized the first International Tourism Film Festival “Tourfilm Riga” supported by the Riga City Council. This year is the Festival’s 12th edition. In previous years she was a Jury member of the following festivals: “Deauville Green Awards”, “Zagreb Tourfilm Festival”, “ART&TUR – International Tourism Film Festival”, “Tourfilm Karlovy Vary”. In 2019 is Jury member of “Istanbul International Tourism Film Festival” and “Terres Travel Festival – Films and Creativity”.

He is a European graduate in documentary production through the Eurodoc training program (2016). He is a founding member and manager of Filmsnòmades, an audiovisual production company that, since 2008, has produced several awarded television reports, creative documentaries and advertising spots. He has played an important role in the execution of Terres Travel Festival – Films & Creativity (Tortosa, Spain), member of CIFFT (International Committee of Tourism Film Festivals) since 2019. Since October 2016, he leads the communication consultancy PVS Media, specializing in communicative support to tourism companies.

From humble beginnings, growing up in a small town called Mancherial, in Telangana state of India, he received the prestigious US Department of State’s CCIP fellowship in 2011 to study Motion Picture Directing at Scottsdale School of Film and Theatre, Arizona, USA. He has also been a delegate and panelist in various international conferences and film festivals in USA, Canada, Pakistan and Iran. He has been representing the Government of Telangana to promote state film tourism at various international film markets and festivals in Cannes, Toronto, Dubai and Goa.

Her film experience, gained in the famous Jadran Film Studio – referred to at that time as European Hollywood – was won through holding highly responsible financial and production posts and making films together with famous directors, actors and other producers. After that she founded her own company, BALDUČI FILM, producing many successful documentaries, feature and tourism promotional films. Spomenka has been awarded numerous prizes in Croatian and International Film Festivals and is a Member of the Croatian Association of Film Workers and the Croatian Producers Association. Zagreb Tourfilm Festival is run in close cooperation with Zagreb Tourist Board, promoting the city´s importance in Tourism. During the festival, tours presenting Zagreb cultural heritage and traditions are always conducted, as well as showing the tourism potential of the whole of Croatia. These issues are also analyzed at interesting conferences during the festival, as Spomenka Saraga proudly exposes to participants and visitors representing countries from far corners of the world.

Previously he taught at the university of Manabí, Ecuador, where he also investigated sustainable tourism development and politics. Furthermore, he has been involved in tourism research in Kenya, Gabon and Nicaragua. Swen holds a master of science degree in Leisure, Tourism and Environment from Wageningen University, the Netherlands. In 2017 he was president of the jury for the Terres Catalunya International Eco & Tourism Film Festival in Tortosa, Spain. Unsurprisingly, his main interests are sustainability and the future of tourism and he believes film plays a very important role in the diffusion of the sustainability movement, which is going to change not only the way we travel, but how we live at large!

After graduating Kyoto Institute of Technology, he explored several countries, Sri Lanka, China and USA as an architect and studied urban morphology at University College London. After coming back to Japan, he has carried out researches how distill narrative stories from local cities; and, has written screenplays on Rakugo and short films. He made several short films as a producer and a director. Currently, he manages film festivals, Fukui Short Film Festival and Japan World’s Tourism Film Festival as a general director.

She also obtained Master of Science and Doctor in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Universitas Indonesia. After gaining 15 years of professional experiences in various industries as an HR practitioner, she then decided to take the plunge into the academic world. She has been invited to share her knowledge and disseminate her research findings as a visiting professor, keynote speaker, and panelist in Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Poland. She is also active as a member of peer-reviewed academic journal in different countries. Yanki is a vigorous member of various international conference associations aligned with her research and publications which focus on leadership, learning, and cultural values, as well as cyber behavior among multi-generational workforce and travelers.

Since 1993 connected with Polish animation, first as the Head of Production Department in Film Studio Se-ma-for then, since December 1999 to February 2015, as the President of Se-ma-for Film Production company.

Since 2008 to 2015 also the Head of Se-ma-for Film Foundation. Initiator of Se-Ma-For Film Festival in Lodz (international festival of puppet animation and other three-dimensional stop-motion animation techniques).

Lead of the Film Working Group of the Program Committee of the Polish Tourfilm Academy.
He has participated as a juror at festivals DOK Leipzig Film Festival (2012); Krakow Film Festival (2014); Tindirindis – Vilnius (2010, 2011); Silafest –Serbia (2015, 2016, 2018); Animaevka – Mogilev – Belarus (2015); FilmAT Festival – Warsaw (2011 – 2019); Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards (2013 – 2019); Offeliada – Gniezno (2013); Art&Tur – Villa Nova de Gaia – Portugal (2016); Golden Kuker – Sofia- Bulgaria (2016); Finisterra Arrabida Film Festival – Portugal (2017); Turizm Filmfest – Istambul (2018); Divo Eurasia – Orenburg – Russia (2019); Kinoproba – Jekaterynburg – Russia (2019).

Animated films which he produced won many Polish and international prizes at film festivals.

The most important is the Oscar (2008) for the short puppet animation film “Peter and the Wolf” (dir. By Suzie Templeton).

Producer of such puppet animation films like “Maska” dir. Quay Brothers, “Ichthys” and “Danny Boy” dir. Marek Skrobecki , 3D animation – “The lost Town of Switez” – dir. Kamil Polak and puppet series for children “Flapper And Friends”.