Les Roches in Crans-Montana and Spark, its innovation middle devoted to the hospitality trade is abuzz this Thursday with the presentation to traders of the successful startups within the second version of the Awake Tourism Problem, a world competitors organized by the World Tourism Group (UNWTO), the United Nations’ specialised company.
The occasion befell within the presence of the UNWTO’s Funding Director and was attended by round 100 members together with stakeholders in non-public fairness, worldwide funding funds, consulting corporations, Spark’s know-how companions, in addition to a number of representatives of the Swiss authorities.
The pitch day is the fruits of the incubation program with Spark for the successful startups of the Awake Tourism Problem, as a part of a collaboration settlement signed final 12 months between Les Roches and the World Tourism Group (UNWTO). This partnership is inseparable from the particular person of Carlos Díez de la Lastra, CEO Les Roches, who has positioned hospitality and tourism coaching among the many instructional elite by buying a number one place for his academy.
Nominated in 2023 as one of many 150 most influential personalities in Spain’s tourism trade, Carlos Díez de la Lastra mentioned: “I want all the perfect for these youthful entrepreneurs’ tasks. The historical past of our establishment is predicated on entrepreneurship and innovation. Private qualities anticipated of all future leaders, who additionally require in-depth information and strategies which have at all times been core to our instructing applications.”
From Might 3 to 30, the Les Roches campus is internet hosting 10 of the 15 successful tasks of the younger entrepreneurs participating within the international problem, chosen amongst 2,000 functions from greater than 120 international locations around the globe in six thematic classes: Area people involvement; Inexperienced and blue economies; Ecological and Sustainable Capital Creation; Tourism Tech for Good; and eventually, Ladies’s Empowerment.
Among the many tasks highlighted as we speak are: Noytrall (Portugal) – an interface for monitoring vacationers’ carbon footprints and associated bills; the NomadHer challenge (South Korea) – an A.I. software for ladies travelling alone geared toward making particular person journey safer and stopping violence; Accessible Qatar (Qatar) – a collaborative platform that gives disabled folks with all the data wanted to journey across the nation; and Quantum Temple (USA) – a Net 3.0 platform that goals to protect residing cultures by native partnerships by creating NFTs, which in return can supply immersive experiences within the tribes or the sale of native artwork artworks.
An thrilling month of Might that’s all about bringing progressive concepts to life thus reworking a imaginative and prescient right into a profitable challenge,
summed up Pablo Garcia, Director of Spark in Crans-Montana. The younger entrepreneurs be taught from specialists and obtain suggestions on their challenge, and the incubation program mobilizes all of Spark’s current ecosystem, together with consulting agency Deloitte for instance, in addition to the Educational and enterprise specialists from Les Roches. A few of the grasp lessons and workshops embrace matters equivalent to know-how, fundraising, advertising and marketing growth and pricing technique, authorized elements, monetary technique and efficiency measurement.
For extra info https://www.unwto.org/unwto-awake-tourism-challenge on the UNWTO web site
Spark – About
Les Roches established a worldwide innovation platform in 2020 to help promising hospitality tasks, encompassing pre-incubation and incubation options for entrepreneurs who carry progressive concepts to the hospitality and tourism sector. Spark permits learners, graduates and allied corporations to design and implement new hospitality options in residing labs on the Crans-Montana and Marbella campuses. Spark presents consulting, analysis and challenge help companies with superior technological and digital sources. In the present day, Spark has 70 non-public and public companions, 100 tasks carried out in collaboration with regional corporations, and 50 start-ups in incubation – Spark Innovation Sphere web site.
Les Roches
Les Roches is a Swiss establishment centered on creating progressive and entrepreneurial minds of tomorrow. Based in 1954, Les Roches presents each undergraduate and graduate levels in Hospitality and Tourism Administration following the Swiss instructional mannequin. With campuses in Switzerland and Spain, and a pupil physique of greater than 100 completely different nationalities, the establishment presents its college students a singular expertise based mostly on cultural range. Since 2021, Les Roches has additionally had an instructional partnership with the Indian Faculty of Hospitality (ISH) with a associate campus in Gurugram (Delhi NCR).
Les Roches is among the many world’s prime 4 greater schooling establishments in hospitality administration (QS World College Rankings, 2023). A part of Sommet Schooling, a world chief in hospitality schooling, Les Roches is accredited by the New England Fee on Greater Schooling (NECHE).
For extra info, go to Les Roches.
Anouck Weiss
Chief Communication Officer, Sommet Schooling
Les Roches
