At the invitation of the City of Almeria, which is located in the Spanish region of Andalusia, Jelka Tepsic, Head of Communications at the Dubrovnik Tourist Board participated in a roundtable discussion on film tourism "Mesa del Cine", the fourth in a row, which subject was the connection between filming and tourism. As the only foreign speaker, Tepšić presented the activities of the Dubrovnik Tourist Board on the formation of the film tourist offer and the effects of filming Game of Thrones in Dubrovnik.

Almeria, in fact, as well as several other Spanish cities, hosted shooting the sixth season of Game of Thrones. A prime location was the fortress from the Arab times Alcazaba, which hosted a number of other famous film and television titles besides the mega-famous series of HBO. Almeria has a number of products associated with film tourism - map with locations of shooting all the 14 large productions (Patton, Conan the Barbarian, spaghetti - westerns of Sergio Leone, Lawrence of Arabia and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusaders), totems on locations where the information about movies and scenes, and House of the film - small museum dedicated to the history of film shooting, in which the famous John Lennon  lived for several years and his monument is located in the city center. Almeria City Administration will continue to develop the project of the film tourism, highlighting the filming of the Game of Thrones, which will be filmed this year too. Note that the part of the Alcazaba fortress in the sixth season is "playing" the city of Dorne.

Through her presentations Jelka Tepsic presented activities of the Dubrovnik Tourist Board such as themed tours at shooting locations, promotional materials of the Tourist Board, as well as promotional activities of Dubrovnik related to shooting the Game of Thrones in foreign markets. Tepsic presented the new products of the film tourism, such as festival "Quiet, please! The city and the film are in love’’, "Escape Room’’ with a theme of Game of Thrones, recent film shooting – of the Bollywood movie FAN and the recent production of Star Wars. The participants were very interested in the experience of Dubrovnik due to the filming of the globally popular series and other big productions in our city.
Tepsic also met with the mayor of the city of Almeria Fernanedez Ramon Pacheco and head of the Tourism Dolores de Haro, who was also the moderator of the round table and who have expressed her intention to visit Dubrovnik.