UNWTO Youth in Tourism Innovation Challenge 2025 for young Africans.

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Application Deadline: twenty eighth February 2025

Applications are actually open for the 2025 UNWTO Youth in Tourism Innovation Challenge. The Africa Youth in Tourism Innovation Challenge is an unique platform designed to empower modern African youth in the journey and tourism sector. It supplies Opportunities for funding, mentorship, partnerships, and world publicity, enabling individuals to current their groundbreaking tasks to a global viewers and safe the mandatory help to carry their concepts to life.

Requirements

• The initiative is inclusive and welcomes individuals no matter gender, race, or bodily skill.
• The problem is open to people (youth aged 18-35 years and postgraduate college students of all ages globally), partnerships, or companies innovating throughout the tourism sector.

Entry Guideline:

To take part, entrants should adhere to the next standards to keep away from disqualification:

1. Project Vision and Uniqueness: Clearly define your undertaking’s imaginative and prescient, its originality,
   and authenticity. Explain the rationale behind your innovation.
2. Evidence of Innovation: Demonstrate how your undertaking addresses a problem in journey and tourism or a associated sector in Africa. Examples embrace technological developments, social entrepreneurship, youth empowerment, job creation, environmental sustainability, and neighborhood growth.
3. Sustainability and Impact: Highlight how your undertaking delivers long-term advantages
   to the tourism trade, native communities, or associated sectors.
4. Timeline: Provide a transparent timeline for undertaking implementation.
5. Support Needed: Specify the kind of help required, similar to funding, mentorship, funding, or partnerships.
6. Additional Information: Submit related supporting particulars in beneath 500 phrases.
7. Demo/Minimum Viable Product (MVP): Prepare a 5-minute presentation to showcase your MVP through the competitors.

Awards

Winner:

• USD1000 price of prizes
• Inclusive of the advantages under:

1. Complimentary enrolment for brief programs supplied by UN Tourism.
2. Mentorship, partnership, potential funding help and profession Opportunities.
3. Opportunity to be a part of a longtime community of Africa Youth in Tourism
   Mentors and Innovators.

1st Runner Up:

• USD500 price of prizes
• Inclusive of the advantages under:

1. Complimentary enrolment for brief programs supplied by UN Tourism.
2. Mentorship, partnership, potential funding help and profession Opportunities.
3. Opportunity to be a part of a longtime community of Africa Youth in Tourism
   Mentors and Innovators.

2nd Runner Up:

• USD500 price of prizes
• Inclusive of the advantages under:

1. Complimentary enrolment for brief programs supplied by UN Tourism.
2. Mentorship, partnership, potential funding help and profession Opportunities.
3. Opportunity to be a part of a longtime community of Africa Youth in Tourism
   Mentors and Innovators.

Professional Development: Complimentary enrolment in brief programs by UN
Tourism.

Career Advancement: Access to mentorship, funding, and partnership Opportunities and inclusion in the Africa Youth in Tourism Mentors and Innovators Network.

Global Exposure: Present your innovation at high-profile occasions and join with
trade leaders.

Competition Timeline:

1. Challenge Opens: tenth December 2024
2. Closing Date: twenty eighth February 2025
3. Top 20 Shortlist Announced: 14th March 2025
4. Bootcamp: thirty first March – 4th April 2025
5. Resubmission Deadline: eleventh April 2025
6. Final Judging: 18th April 2025
7. Pitch Battle: eighth May 2025
8. Top 5 Announced: eighth May 2025

Africa Youth in Tourism Innovation Summit: 10 – 13 June 2025, Nairobi, Kenya

Winners Revealed: Africa Tourism Leadership Forum and Awards 2025 (dates to be introduced)

NB: Only one entry is allowed per participant.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the UNWTO Youth in Tourism Innovation Challenge