MPVR | 
03 23rd, 2011| 
Kerala Tourism’s much-acclaimed ad film ‘Your Moment is Waiting’ has won the Golden City Gate award, dubbed the Oscar of travel industry.
‘Your Moment is Waiting’ bagged one of the three awards in the three categories of TV Commercial films at the world’s leading travel trade show ITB Berlin last week. The awards were presented during the Golden City Gate competition in Berlin during March 9-13. Kerala Tourism Director M Sivasankar received the award, which recognizes the best in tourism advertising across the world, from Wolfgang Jo Huschert, president of the Golden City Gate jury. There were six categories in the competition: City tourism, Hotel, Region, Economy, Spots and Commercials and TV-Travel Magazine. The winners were picked by an international jury, which considered visual performance, acoustic overall impression, emotional effect, value of information, conception and creativity. Your Moment is Waiting’, the three-minute ad film, which was premiered in London in September last year, had won an unprecedented three Pacific Asia Travel Association Gold Awards last month in Marketing-Secondary Government Destination, Marketing Media-Travel Advertisement Broadcast Media and Marketing Media-Public Relations categories.
Directed by Vodafone `Zoo-Zoo’ ad fame Prakash Varma, ‘Your Moment is Waiting’ was conceived by Stark Communications Pvt Ltd., which manages the international marketing and promotion of Kerala Tourism.