Africa Youth in Tourism Innovation Challenge 2025

Deadline: February 28, 2025

Applications are open for the Africa Youth in Tourism Innovation Challenge 2025. The Africa Youth in Tourism Innovation Challenge is an unique platform designed to empower progressive African youth in the journey and tourism sector. It offers alternatives for funding, mentorship, partnerships, and international publicity,
enabling contributors to current their groundbreaking initiatives to a world viewers and safe the mandatory help to carry their concepts to life.

The Africa Youth in Tourism Innovation Challenge is your OPPORTUNITY to remodel Africa’s journey and tourism sector. Showcase your creativity, display your impression, and produce your imaginative and prescient to life!

Prizes

• Winner: USD $1,000 price of prizes
• 1st runner up: USD $500 price of prizes
• 2nd runner up: USD $500 price of prizes

Other advantages embody:

• Professional Development: Complimentary enrolment in quick programs by UN Tourism.
• Career Advancement: Access to mentorship, funding, and partnership alternatives and inclusion in the Africa Youth in Tourism Mentors and Innovators Network.
• Global Exposure: Present your innovation at high-profile occasions and join with business leaders.

Eligibility

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

Entry Guidelines

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

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

NB: Only one entry is allowed per participant.

Selection Criteria

Projects shall be evaluated primarily based on the next elements:

• Originality: The thought have to be distinctive and never replicate present options. It can reinterpret an present idea with a novel utility.
• Sustainability: Clearly outline the long-term environmental, social, and financial
  impression of the venture.
• Significance: Address vital points in the tourism business whereas aligning with the Challenge’s goal of enhancing tourism providers, programs, and engagement.
• Applicability and Transferability: Demonstrate how the venture can encourage and be tailored by others in the tourism business.
• Practicality: Present actionable steps, well-defined goals, and a transparent execution plan.
• Impact: Illustrate the potential for transformational change in the tourism sector, organizational tradition, or group improvement.

Application

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For extra info, go to Africa Youth in Tourism Innovation Challenge.