Qatar Youth Hostels Kicks Off Lens of Tourism Competition

Doha, September 09 (QNA) - Qatar Youth Hostels announced on Monday the kick off for the "Lens of Tourism Competition" for undergraduate students in order to promote tourism and highlight tourist attractions in Qatar and will run till October 23, 2019. The competition aims to encourage talented youth to photograph and direct tourist and heritage sites in Qatar, and to give youth a chance to show their talents. It also aims to enhance the tourist side and highlight the tourist and heritage places through photography. The participation standards states that participants must express travelling, tourist attractions and archaeological sites in Qatar. Guides can be hired from Qatari museums or travelers as part of the film. Documentary information must be from official sources. The duration of the film does not exceed three minutes. A number of places have been selected to invite participants to choose one of them to be filmed, which are Umm Sawyah Village, Borouq, Al-Ghariah Village, Moroub Village, Rakiat Village, Thaghab Village, Coot Village and Ayaal Al-Theeb Site. Initial registration for the contest is done via the page: http://hi-qatar.com/ar/touristlens/ Then the movies are to be sent via email (infohi-qatar.com) and attached with the following data: full name, university and college, university ID number, phone number and film name. The judging panel is composed of three members and they have 70 percent of the total evaluation and 30 percent is for the administration of Qatar Youth Hostels. The members are: Khalifa Al-Merry, Yousif Al-Midady and Hamad Abdulrahman Al-Muftah. Winners will be announced on the same day as the screening of the films. Prizes from first to tenth place will be QR 7000 for first place, QR 5000 for second place, QR 3000 for third place, along with other gifts for winner of the public vote on social media platforms and for the fourth to tenth place. (QNA)