Ignite Your Tourism Venture with Beta-Start Accelerator
Beta Start – Tourism is a 3-month acceleration program aimed at aiding entrepreneurs in refining their tourism businesses.
It guides Startups into testing revenue models, refining cost structures, and shaping presentations for clients and investors. Ultimately, on Pitch Day they can showcase their business potential and garner valuable feedback from potential customers and investors.
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Beta Start – Tourism is a 3-month acceleration program designed to support entrepreneurs in better structuring their business.
Whether you have your project thought through, you built a prototype or you actually have a startup in the tourism industry, this program will help you validate your hypotheses through prototypes and initial product versions – proposing, testing, and structuring your revenue models and cost structures, not to mention the construction of its presentations to clients and investors.
In the end, on Pitch Day, you have the opportunity to show your potential as a business and receive feedback from potential customers and investors.
Challenges
Waste & Packaging Management
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Food Waste Reduction
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Digitalization for Sustainability
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Foster Sustainable Behaviors
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Energy Efficiency
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- Enhance waste separation and collection processes in the HORECA sector.
- Digitalize waste monitoring, reporting, and traceability.
- Reduce packaging waste through circular and reusable solutions.
- Improve logistics for glass and heavy materials collection.
- Foster awareness and behavioral change in staff and guests to boost recycling rates.
- Implement monitoring systems to track and analyze food waste in real time.
- Optimize portion sizes and production planning to prevent overproduction.
- Enable safe reuse or redistribution of surplus food.
- Develop composting and biowaste management solutions for urban facilities.
- Raise awareness among staff and guests to reduce waste at the source.
- Integrate operational systems (POS, bookings, inventory, delivery, energy, waste) into unified platforms.
- Automate environmental data reporting and compliance.
- Create simple digital tools to support daily sustainability practices.
- Improve data collection and analytics to guide strategic decisions.
- Engage consumers and tourists through educational and interactive gamification to promote behavioral change.
- Support capacity building on waste separation, energy use, and resource efficiency.
- Simplify energy monitoring and management across facilities.
- Retrofit or adapt older buildings with efficient technologies.
- Visualize energy use data to engage staff and guests in saving efforts.
- Optimize water use through reuse, automation, monitoring, and improved management practices.
Benefits
Improve your solution
Design a bolder, client-oriented business model with a product-led growth.
Get feedback & mentorship
Access to feedback from mentors and investors matched to your maturity stage.
Learn by doing
Let’s work for real. Go beyond workshops, learn by doing and grow by testing.
Create a killer pitch
Turn all this leveraging experience and feedback into a killer pitch and presentation.
Ecosystem & Networking
Meet investors, ecosystem partners and stakeholders that can help you grow.
Funding opportunities
Connect with investors for the chance of getting up to 100k€ in pre-seed investment.
Time for your business
This program sets the agenda from Tuesday to Thursday, you will still have time to keep the pace of your business.
Applications
Selection Phase
Acceleration Phase
Pitch Day
Applications
November 3rd - November 30th
Selection Phase
December 2nd - December 9th
Acceleration Phase
January 5th - March 6th
Pitch Day
March 24th
What you will learn
During the acceleration phase you will take a deep dive into:
Validation
Put aside your beliefs and validate your assumptions and business visions, learn what investors are looking for, new validation techniques, how to map stakeholders and talk to users, and last but not least, define customer journeys.
(Workshops – Theory + Practice, Sprints and hands-on time, Mentoring sessions)
Product
Insights to Product: Entrepreneurs will transform their validated assumptions into prototypes and products while using tools that will allow them to learn through customer interactions. The startups will launch their MVPs and set their product metrics.
(Workshops – Theory + Practice, Sprints and hands-on time, Mentoring sessions)
Business case
Take a deep dive into business strategy, build a structured business case with a marketing and sales strategy and financial projections. Develop your pitch and practice the presentation.
rules of participation
- Participation to Beta Start – Tourism is entirely free. This program is supported by Turismo de Portugal and produced by Beta-i.
- By registering to Beta Start – Tourism you are confirming your participation in team-activities and workshops during three months. The program will be held remotely.
- We will accept only applications coming through F6S platform.
- No equity stake involved.
- Any doubt? Contact us.
Partners
Orchestrator
Sponsored
Corporate Partners
Ecosystem Partners
Beta-Start 3rd Edition
Selected Startups
