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B<\/span>ooking.com has announced the 2018 Booking Booster Programme, a three-week accelerator in Amsterdam<\/span> for social enterprise scale-ups in sustainable tourism. In addition to the \u20ac2 million in grants awarded through Booking Booster, the company is also announcing its plans to further expand its efforts to support organisations and individuals throughout the broader sustainable tourism industry with two new initiatives for a total of more than \u20ac4 million in support available in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The first new programme is the Booster Labs, a series of short, regionally-focussed weekend programmes that are slated to run globally throughout 2018, dedicated to giving early-stage startups in sustainable tourism the insights, tools and skills they need to grow and increase their impact. The second new initiative is the Booking Cares Fund, a separate \u20ac2 million grant programme to champion individual non-profit changemakers in sustainable tourism and support their search for new and unexpected solutions to strengthen local communities, preserve and promote culture, protect natural resources and spread tourism activities more evenly.<\/p>\n

Booking Booster, the new Booster Labs and the Booking Cares Fund sit alongside Booking.com’s internal volunteer programme, Booking Cares, where employees have long partnered with local organisations on projects that help improve destinations worldwide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe Booking Booster, our new Booking Booster Labs initiative and the Booking Cares Fund have all been specially designed to support important, innovative players in different sectors throughout the entire sustainable tourism ecosystem,\u201d said Gillian Tans, CEO of Booking.com. \u201cBy identifying, funding and mentoring early stage start-ups, social enterprises scale-ups and the non-profit projects and changemakers from universities, governments and NGOs that bring them all together, we can help make an even more meaningful impact. We can empower people and organisations to affect real change to help further a healthy and sustainable future for thousands of destinations all around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the 2018 Booking Booster Programme, Booking.com will select and invite a small group of social enterprises in the sustainable tourism sector that are ready to scale their business plans to a three-week accelerator programme in Amsterdam in May 2018.<\/p>\n

The programme will consist of a series of lectures, hands-on workshops and coaching sessions, culminating in a final pitch to receive a grant of up to \u20ac500k from Booking.com\u2019s \u20ac2 million fund in order to help support the next stage of projected growth for the participating scale-ups. All the social enterprises will also receive several months of ongoing mentoring and coaching from Booking.com experts, as well as opportunities and access to collaborate with Booking.com on potential innovation initiatives and experiments to help accelerate their future growth.<\/p>\n

Applications opened on December 4th, 2017, and applicants can visit the Booking Booster<\/a> section on the Booking Cares website for more details.<\/p>\n

Booking Cares Fund: Grant programme for non-profit changemakers<\/h2>\n

With the new \u20ac2 million Booking Cares Fund, Booking.com wants to also provide support to disruptive innovators in the non-profit realm that are passionate about making a difference in the sustainable tourism industry.<\/p>\n

Coming from a broad range of non-profit backgrounds, including higher education, government, and NGOs, Booking.com is looking for individual changemakers that have ground-breaking, innovative projects to support. Leaders with bold, ambitious ideas to truly transform the sustainable tourism industry will be awarded with grants between \u20ac100 and \u20ac250k based on their grant applications. Entries will be judged on a project\u2019s potential to produce meaningful change that can scale. The projects must be backed by data and be able to produce measurable results.<\/p>\n

Booking Booster, the new Booster Labs and the Booking Cares Fund sit alongside Booking.com\u2019s internal volunteer programme, Booking Cares, where employees have long partnered with local organisations on projects that help improve destinations worldwide. Together these initiatives make up and further expand Booking.com\u2019s Booking Cares commitment.<\/p>\n

For more information and application details, visit the\u00a0Booking Cares Fund<\/a>\u00a0section of the Booking.com website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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