Public leadership
A trusted environment for government, destinations and international institutions.
Independent global platform · Founded in Istanbul
Where tourism meets global leadership.
Est. 2010
World Tourism Forum convenes public leaders, investors, destinations and industry decision-makers around the future of the visitor economy.
Istanbul · Türkiye
Leadership · Investment · Destinations
Institutional recordA decade of global dialogue
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The institution
A forum built for consequential conversations.
Founded in Istanbul, World Tourism Forum created an international meeting point for the public and private leaders shaping tourism, hospitality, aviation and destination investment.
Its record spans global meetings, regional summits and awards programmes across Europe, Africa and neighbouring markets.
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The mandateConnect leadership to opportunity.
Investment dialogue
Direct exchange between capital, operators and the places building their tourism economies.
Global perspective
Ideas and experience drawn from markets at every stage of tourism development.
Distinguished voices
Leaders who shaped the conversation.
A selection from the public leaders, business figures and international voices welcomed by the Forum.
Forum record
Meetings across markets and continents.
A permanent record of convened global meetings, regional summits and awards programmes.
The living archive
A visual record of tourism leadership.
Recovered photographs, forum editions and institutional moments are preserved in a permanent digital collection.
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Tourism advances when institutions, destinations and enterprise meet around a shared table.World Tourism Forum · Institutional principle