Accelerating gastronomy tourism initiatives to achieve the SDGs.

THE COMPETITION:

The competition mission is to identify challenges and projects, and catalyzing innovations that can transform the Gastronomy Tourism sector in the near future.

THE COMPETITION CATEGORIES:

1. 1. New Technologies: Startups that are developing and promoting a startup with a high technological component to provide solutions or new services related to the Gastronomic Tourism sector.
   2. Local Impact: Startups that are developing and promoting a project with a high component of transformation and social improvement in its area of implementation and that are attached to the Gastronomic Tourism sector.
   3. Sustainability and Waste: Startups that are developing and promoting a project with a high component of sustainability and/or food waste management related to the impact generated by tourist.

BENEFITS

• Mentoring by UNWTO and top partners
• Tailored support for your startup
• Investment opportunities
• Form part of the UNWTO Innovation Network
• Scholarship opportunities for the Tourism Online Academy
• Opportunity to present your startup at the 7th UNWTO Gastronomy Tourism Forum (Nara, Japan June 2022)
• Use of a space in the LABe- Digital Gastronomy Lab facilities for 6 months.
• Participate as a finalist company in the corresponding edition of Culinary Action! – On the road, the first foodtech startup competition in roadshow format.
• Advanced Plan of the GOe Digital Community for 6 months, which is the first digital community within the 360º gastronomy sector.

CALENDAR:

CRITERIA:

• Scope into the Gastronomy Tourism Sector
• Innovation: Degree of comparative disruptiveness / innovation in the sector (global level); not technological component required.
• Social Impact of the Start-up: Focused on meeting unmet social needs in different realms, to foster employability of young and/or vulnerable people, depopulation of the territory, population aging and/or gender equality; and with tangible indicators to that effect.
• Traction: Capacity to transform the localized environment; ability to generate a change in society, improving the social conditions of the beneficiary groups and / or promoting their recognition before society.
• A tested MVP: product or service prototype, tested and tested, with already measured or measurable results. ü Potential impact of the business: potential scalability/financial return and/or development of competitive advantages for the business in the short-medium term.
• Ease of value capture via collaboration with the Start-up: agile implementation in the short-medium term for co-development of products/services, optimizing the use of existing resources/infrastructure and ability to scale the product.
• Committed team. Team with explicit knowledge about the area of action; positive assessment of the endorsement of a public or private organization on the execution of the project
• Adherence to the Sustainable Development Goals: Linking and tangible social impact metrics in relation to the priority SDG.

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