With the support of:
2nd Global
Gastronomy Tourism Startup Competition
With the support of:
Transforming Gastronomy Tourism through Innovation
Identify challenges and projects, and catalyzing innovations that can transform the Gastronomy Tourism sector in the near future.Read more
Tourism is a driver of inclusive and sustainable economic growth, a cross-cutting sector with a high impact on the promotion of social welfare, with the aim of promoting the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
With continuous growth in the last decade, tourism generates approximately one in 10 jobs, and accounts for 10.2% of world GDP. At its intersection with the gastronomy sector, food tourism or culinary tourism, it is organized around experiential trips and assumes as part of its essence ethical and sustainable values related to the territory, heritage, local culture, local products, authenticity, tradition or culinary techniques at the local, regional or national level.
The undoubted influence of gastronomy in travel and the growing demand for gastronomic tourism have made this area one of the segments with the greatest development opportunities attracting growing interest on the part of governments. Food tourism has become one of the most dynamic and creative segments of tourism and, at the same time, has naturally positioned itself as an element of diversification of tourism with a high impact on the promotion of sustainable development at the regional and local levels.
Gastronomy tourism stimulates entrepreneurship and the generation of new companies and organizations that necessarily affect other industries transversally and fosters values such as:
Gastronomic tourism is in itself, a stimulus to creativity, innovation and sustainable growth where startups with disruptive and open visions can propose new future scenarios that have a positive and transversal impact on various sectors so that they can collaborate and contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Startup
Innovation in Social Impact
Most disruptive:
A platform that gives access to culinary traditions through experiences (cooking with locals), content (traditional recipes and stories that highlight local food traditions), and products (a curation handcraft culinary products).
A trusted one-stop shop food tourism agency for foodies (guide and tour). This gastronomic platform includes a holistic business model strategy that can be replicated for small and medium restaurants that include: new revenue streams and business executions that are not traditional.
Aims to revitalize the local economy by creating local food ingredient tour content: with locals who produce local ingredients, re-branding and create local foodie tour content with food ingredient, advertise for tourist to travel the local and consume local´s food ingredients and share revenue with the local business owners.
Startup supporting top-quality independent restaurants attracting the corporate client, increasing their average price and mid-week traffic, giving the best service while controlling, studying and reducing their costs. All this is backed up by a revolutionary technical platform which connects B2B the corporate clients.
EATour is a start-up born from a university research project for the listing of greenhouse gas emissions in the agri-food chain and the certification of sustainable dishes in catering through blockchain technology. EATour aims to create rewards for sustainable supply chains, to create business opportunities for companies engaged in responsibility actions and to involve companies, hotels and the general public through food on the meaning of the actions of companies and individuals in support of the fight against changes climate.
Social Impact winner:
Platform that allows local communities in Africa share authentic local food and cuisine experiences. The platform intends to support specifically the conservation of local ingredients and the relationship between culture, heritage, gastronomy, tourism and economic growth across Africa starting in Kenya.
These are the 5 finalists of the 1st Global Gastronomy Tourism Startup Competition
Terms and conditions
It is a global initiative that aims to identify startups with the greatest potential to outline the future and promote sustainable innovation in the tourism and gastronomy sector.
We are looking for startups with most disruptive ideas focused on solving real needs in the tourism and gastronomy sector with a responsible approach.
In particular, we are targeting startups that are:
Travel and accommodation for two nights in Flanders, Belgium valid for 1 representative per team of the 5 selected finalists and the selected startup from the innovation in social impact to attend the World Forum on Gastronomy Tourism
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is the United Nations agency responsible for the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism. As the leading international organization in the field of tourism, UNWTO promotes tourism as a driver of economic growth, inclusive development and environmental sustainability and offers leadership and support to the sector in advancing knowledge and tourism policies worldwide.
BCC is a pioneering global academic institution that comprises the Faculty of Gastronomic Sciences attached to Mondragon University and a Center for Innovation and Research. The aim of the BCC is higher education, research, innovation and promotion of gastronomy and food and it is working to promote gastronomy as a lever for socio-economic development through its actions.
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