Innovation & Mapping Festival

Innovation and Mapping Festival is one-day event organised to foster innovation and collaboration in tourism. The festival adopts a dynamic hackathon-style format, featuring numerous industry challenges focused on addressing real-world needs in the tourism sector.

The exemplary challenges were prepared by tourism and IT companies and organisations, they provide an early look at the real-world tourism issues, these are:

1. Map APP: shape the digital travel companion of tomorrow.

2. Unlocking Autumn: realize the vision of four-season tourism with the help of data.

3. AI supported tag search: develop an intelligent search algorithm and shape the future of search.

4. Door2Track Planner: locate unstructured data on a map and help improve the user experience

5. Future Mobility for Tourism Destinations: accessible, sustainable, and smartly connected

6. Managing Visitor Flows: attractive solutions for travelling outside peak times

7. AI for Accessibility: automation of building assessments to increase transparency for people with disabilities

Detailed information about challenges can be found on the website: https://www.tourismdata.ch/events/innovation-and-mapping-festival/challenges/

Participants will work in interdisciplinary teams to develop creative, practical solutions. The festival is open for all, it brings together tourism professionals, students, IT service providers and others interested in digitalisation in tourism. There is no requirement to have special skills (such as programming).

The main event will be followed by online challenge pitch (4th February 2025, 1t 17:00), when participants can understand challenges better, ask first questions and be inspired to look for potential solutions.

The event is free of charge. Registration is obligatory. Please register here: https://www.event-hslu.ch/event/sessions?id=Innovation_Mapping_Festival4080668541

The Innovation & Mapping Festival is a part of Resilient Tourism Project (www.resilienttourism.ch).

The event is organised jointly by the Institute of Tourism and Mobility, Destination.Lab and hosted at Switzerland Tourism headquarters in Zürich.