UN Tourism Global Artificial Intelligence Challenge 2025 – YOA

Deadline: March 25, 2025

Applications are open for the UN Tourism Global Artificial Intelligence Challenge 2025. The UN Tourism’s Global Artificial Intelligence and Deep Tech Challenge for Start-ups and Scale-ups is strategically oriented in direction of begin-ups and scale-ups which have already demonstrated important potential within the tourism or expertise sectors and are prepared for his or her subsequent part of progress.

The aims of the problem embody:

• Innovate: Support AI-pushed options that enhance effectivity and remodel traveler experiences throughout the tourism ecosystem.
• Adopt: Ensure equitable adoption of AI, offering entry to all communities and selling broad participation and advantages from these applied sciences.
• Driving Growth: Promoting AI options that optimize operations and enhance the standard of providers, benefiting all trade gamers.
• Collaborate: Unify governments, industries, and specialists to advance the position of AI in addressing key tourism challenges.
• Shaping the Future: Using AI to fulfill person expectations, from optimizing logistics to bettering the customer expertise, strengthening tourism as an engine of financial progress.

Categories

• Branding, Promotion and Marketing
• Smart locations and deep applied sciences
• Education and Technology
• Efficiency and Operations

Benefits

• Pitch on the UN TOURISM Demo Day
• Acceleration Programme of two months at SPARK, the Innovation Sphere of Les Roches in Crans-Montana and Marbella
• Access to 90+ Venture Capitalists
• Access to Top Corporations and 150+ Countries
• Curated mentorship programmes
• Scholarships from the UN Tourism Online Academy;
• Potential pilot mission with non-public sector collaborators and establishments
• Plug and Play will provide a registered profile on Playbook, an invite to take part in our Silicon Valley Summit, and entry to expertise and synergies with their Portfolio

Eligibility

They welcome improvements which can be revolutionizing each side of the traveler’s journey and reshaping the sector:

• Immersive Experiences: AI facilitates immersive experiences enhancing the journey expertise via Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR).    
• Streamlined Processes: AI-powered chatbots and digital assistants streamline the reserving course of, present actual-time help, and handle buyer inquiries promptly and effectively.    
• Operational Efficiency: AI optimizes operations, enhances advertising and marketing methods, and gives insights into client habits and developments. Data analytics and predictive modeling allow companies to make knowledgeable choices, anticipate market calls for, and innovate to remain aggressive.    
• Sustainability: AI promotes sustainability throughout the tourism sector by analyzing environmental knowledge and monitoring vacationer actions, serving to mitigate the destructive impacts on fragile ecosystems and pure assets.

Evaluation Criteria

Participating begin-ups will probably be evaluated in response to the next standards:

• Ease of worth seize
• Scalability
• Potential affect on enterprise
• Product/Technology Maturity
• Maturity of the workforce and the group
• Preparing for partnerships
• Contribution to the chosen Sustainable Development Goals

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to UN Tourism Artificial Intelligence Global Startup Challenge.