{"id":44000,"date":"2021-04-07T15:27:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T13:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/?p=44000"},"modified":"2021-07-16T16:07:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T14:07:09","slug":"unwto-rural-tourism-startup-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/unwto-rural-tourism-startup-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"UNWTO Rural Tourism Startup Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p_brief\">The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has launched a new competition to identify the best ideas that will help rural communities recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Global Rural Tourism Startup Competition will also support the entrepreneurs and enterprises that can help rural communities seize the economic and social opportunities that will come as tourism restarts.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations specialized agency has recorded rising interest in unique and authentic travel experiences, including in nature-based and outdoors tourism. With this trend expected to accelerate as tourism restarts, the Startup Competition is looking for those ideas that will help ensure rural communities are best-placed to benefit. The competition will also look for ideas that will help build resilience in rural communities.<\/p>\n<p>The Competition aims to support rural tourism as a key tool to fight depopulation, promote inclusion and reduce regional inequalities in income and development as part of UNWTO\u2019s special focus on tourism for rural development.<\/p>\n<p>Applications are now open for four categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>People \u2013Leaving no one behind:<\/strong>\u00a0Projects that incentivize the creation of jobs and opportunities, promote gender and youth empowerment, and build opportunities for vulnerable groups in rural areas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Planet \u2013 Building back better\u00a0<\/strong>Projects related to the promotion and protection of natural resources, including addressing tourism\u2019s impact on climate change, we as well as waste and resource consumption.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Prosperity- opportunities for growth\u00a0<\/strong>Startups that provide innovative solutions through new business models, instruments that promote access to finance, markets and marketing for tourism in rural areas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Propulsion of Rural Tech<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Implementation of new technologies to advance tourism and development in rural areas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The deadline for applications is\u00a0<strong>1 July 2021<\/strong>. Winners will be invited to take part in the UNWTO General Assembly, to be held in Marrakesh, Morocco, this October.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unwto.org\/unwto-global-rural-tourism-startup-competition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">For more information and to apply<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unwto.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/category\/united-nations-digital-engagement-hub\/united-nations-competitions-and-contests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More UN Competitions and Contests<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has launched a new competition to identify the best ideas that will help rural communities recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Global Rural Tourism Startup Competition will also support the entrepreneurs and enterprises that can help rural communities seize the economic and social opportunities that will come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":44001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17201],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}