By Andrew Mulenga
Every two years,
on the occasion of the United Nations
World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), a poster competition called the Vettor Giusti Tourism Poster Competition
is held providing an opportunity to showcase the creativity and beauty found in
the posters used to promote tourism in each country.
The Vettor Giusti Tourism Poster Competition
is open to all the member states of the UNWTO and is channelled exclusively
through their national tourism administrations, which in Zambia’s case should
be the Zambia National Tourism Board ZNTB.
Each member
country was invited to submit one poster. During the 19th session of the
General Assembly in Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, in October 2011, the winners
were announced.
Sadly, ZNTB
appears to have done very badly in publicising this poster competition, if not
to Zambian visual artists, graphic design houses and photographers who have the
skills to design such a poster, but to the general public who will actually be
voting for the Zambian poster to win, if at all we even have a poster being
entered in the competition.
According to the UNWTO Information Sheet No. 1, Annex 2. Tourism posters
competition, “For this 2013 edition, each Member State will be invited to
submit one sole poster in electronic format, which shall be posted directly on
the UNWTO website… and the
web page will be open for the submission of posters to the competition until 23 June 2013” reads the document
in part.
It further states that:
“The poster selected by each Member State
must:
- be representative of the country's tourism,
- have been published after the nineteenth
session of the Assembly (that is,
after
September 2011),
- have a high level of graphic design and
communication,
- be submitted in a file no larger than 5 MB,
and
- contain in its design the name of the
country it represents.
6. All posters validly submitted will be
displayed on the UNWTO website until the announcement of the winners during the
Assembly.
7. In order to select the winners of the 6
regional prizes, a jury will be established composed of the Chairs of the 6
Regional Commissions of the UNWTO, one representative from each of the two host
countries (Republic of Zambia and Republic of Zimbabwe), one representative of
the UNWTO's Communications programme, and a communications professional
designated by the Organization. Each member of the jury shall vote for 3
posters from each region, except his or her own region in the case of
representatives of the member countries.
8. During the Assembly, the final decision of
the jury and the results of the popular vote will be announced and the official
ceremony will be held to award the 2013 Vettor Giusti Prizes to the winning
countries.
9. The 7 winning posters will appear on the
UNWTO website until the next edition of the Vettor Giusti posters competition
at the 2015 General Assembly. After the prizes have been awarded, the printed
versions of the winning posters are to be submitted by the corresponding
countries for display in the entrance hall of the UNWTO building until the next
edition of the competition at the 2015 General Assembly.”
Art Exhibition
& Awards, come through their mail annually but what
do they do to get these competitions home? The Peace Pals competition as well
as the The KANOON International Biannual Art Competition & Exhibition organized by Institute for the
Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, are children’s art competitions that talented Zambian children aged
between 5 and 16 never get the chance to enter because their missions abroad
whom of course are the recipients of such competitions, shamefully make no
efforts to publicize these back home. These two competitions and others were
received by this author from Zambia’s permanent mission to the United Nations
in New York with no attached publicity instructions, but surely, there is only
so much a journalist can do. For children and parents with internet access
reading this article, “Google” the two competitions for more details.
..so this is it...i have been looking for Zambias posterbut my searches are only landing tunisia and zim in africa...
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Hi Andrew,
ReplyDeleteJust to let you know that Zambia won the prize for the best Poster (African region) at the just ended 20th General Assembly of the UNWTO.
Thanks anonymous, it skipped me, information has been scanty
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