Funding calls

19 November 2024

Call for projects: Boosting digitalisation in Vaud's travel sector

Adventure tourism

Coastal, maritime and inland water tourism

Cultural tourism

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05/01/2025

The Flagship Resilient Tourism initiative is calling for project submissions until 5 January 2025, offering SMEs in Vaud's travel sector expert guidance, funding, and networking opportunities to foster digitalisation and innovation.

05/01/2025

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EHL Hospitality Business School

Related Organisation

SPEI - Service de la promotion de l’économie et de l’innovation

Vaud Promotion

Topics

Geographical descriptors

Switzerland

Organisation Type

Industry Associations and Chambers of Commerce

SMEs (a company with less than 250 employees)

Specific types of tourism
- Adventure tourism
- Coastal, maritime and inland water tourism
- Cultural tourism
- Ecotourism
- Education tourism
- Festival tourism
- Gastronomy tourism
- Health and medical tourism
- MICE tourism
- Mountain tourism
- Religious tourism
- Rural tourism
- Sports tourism
- Urban/city tourism
- Wellness tourism

Transition Pathway Strategic Areas
- Digitalisation of tourism SMEs and destinations
- Funding and support measures

Business activities
- Activities of amusement parks and theme parks
- Activities of associations and other organisations supporting tourism
- Air passenger transport
- Camping grounds, recreational vehicle parks and trailer parks
- Events catering and other food services
- Festivals, cultural and entertainment activities
- Gardens and nature reserves activities
- Holiday Housing / Apartments and other short stay accommodation
- Hotel and similar accommodation
- Mobile beverage services
- Mobile food services
- Museums
- Operation of historical sites
- Other
- Other accommodation
- Other amusement and recreation activities
- Other food and beverage services
- Other holiday reservation services
- Other tourism transportation activities
- Rail Passenger transport
- Recreational and sport activities
- Restaurants, cafes and bars (Food and Beverage serving activities)
- Road passenger transport
- Tour operator activities
- Travel agency activities
- Water (sea, coastal and inland) passenger transport

The Flagship Resilient Tourism initiative has announced a call for projects, with submissions open until 5 January 2025. It aims to support the digitalisation of the travel sector in Vaud, Switzerland. It is designed for SMEs in the travel and tourism industry within the region and offers expert guidance from the EHL Hospitality Business School and its network, CHF 5,000 in funding, and networking opportunities.

The primary goal is to foster innovative projects such as data platforms, artificial intelligence, forecasting, automation, online platforms, software testing and adoption, and data-driven marketing. These efforts aim to boost the local economy, enhance digitalisation in the canton, and increase the region's visibility. Selected projects will enable participants to optimise their business operations, adopt new digital tools, expand their databases, gain better customer insights, drive innovation, and enjoy numerous other benefits.

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