Travel Tech Hackathon

We’d like to invite you to Lithuania’s very first Travel Tech Hackathon on 9-11 November 2023 in Vilnius.

VU Tech Hub

We’d like to invite you to Lithuania’s very first Travel Tech Hackathon on 9-11 November 2023 in Vilnius (Vilnius University Tech Hub, Saulėtekio al. 9).During the event, IT and tourism professionals, students, and enthusiasts will solve challenges, develop solutions, and take tourism in Lithuania to the next level. Sign up to create solutions for tourism industry challenges or work on your own idea! Current list of challenges:1. Opening hours challenge 🏛️Some places of interest, e.g., museums, visitor centers, and exhibition halls, have inconvenient opening hours, while others lack the personnel to remain open on Sundays. What could be the solution to this problem? How could we make sure that tourists get the services they need and are able to visit at any time or within more friendly opening hours? 2. Attracting tourists to the regions🪷Big cities, resort towns, and the seaside attract the most tourists. How could we attract more of them to other parts of Lithuania and convince them to stay there longer? 3. Overcoming seasonality🚀In tourism, the most popular destinations are usually those capable of deftly managing seasonal ebbs and flows in tourist traffic. Any ideas on how this could be achieved in less popular regions? 4. How to find a guide?🌍Tourists coming to Lithuania sometimes need help finding a guide with the right expertise or at a wanted time. It should be easier for guides to promote their services and list their time availability. While for travelers, the process of finding and booking a guide should be seamless on any device or platform.5. Improve SPA bookings with AI🫧Hotels with SPA salons face a lot of manual planning: optimal use of service facilities, scheduling SPA treatment professionals, and booking equipment. In addition, customers desire to reserve time for the procedures in real-time and via different channels.6. Lack of employees in tourism👩‍Across Europe, there’s a shortage of almost 1.2 million tourism staff. Lithuania is no exception, with hotels, restaurants, and other establishments struggling to find employees, especially during high season. What could be the potential solution for the sector? Would a unified management system or an employee-sharing scheme work best?7. NOVATURAS challenge: The Hotel Ratings Aggregator.🏨 The goal is to gather hotel reviews from different sources (Google, Booking.com, TripAdvisor, etc.) to generate a comprehensive, aggregated rating. Collecting as much data as possible from diverse platforms and synthesizing it into a singular, unified hotel rating with defined explanation. Such innovation could revolutionize the way travelers make decisions, offering a more streamlined and holistic view of hotel choices.Have an idea you’d like to try to implement? Then go ahead and <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScHGkQ6EkBfq64ZEbJtp4uBenWMLUeas0qBlAkrqu3OSv2pXw/viewform" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">register your own challenge</a> – who knows, maybe it’ll be picked up by the organisers and show up on the official agenda! 8. Smart AI-rport🛫 AI travel companion challenge from Lithuanian Airports - develop an AI-based solution to guide passengers through Vilnius Airport (VNO) intelligently, taking advantage of airport services, catering, and stores. Leverage data available on the Vilnius Airport website https://www.vilnius-airport.lt/, including the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section and the terminal plans. 9. Hotel Pacai challenge - Personalizing guest experience in the age of decreasing personal data sharing.💾 Empower technology to learn about your guest without being intrusive. Have an ability to use captured guest data together with image recognition technology of their social media and other available data to and to create a personalized itinerary for their trip where suggestions include considerations of season, weather, opening hours, public holidays, busy hours and more.10. Vilkaviškio turizmo ir verslo informacijos centras https://www.vilkaviskisinfo.lt/ challenge:🗃️ Tourists today have access to a wealth of information about events, but managing this data is a challenging task for organizers and administrators. Tourism information centers aim to be the go-to portals for event information in their region. However, these centers face a significant obstacle – manually collecting event data from various sources and re-uploading it. This challenge calls for innovative solutions to automate the aggregation of event information from diverse databases with varying structures. The solution has to be simple to integrate and use in any website - a no-code platform or tool for collecting and distributing event information.💚New challenges will be added later, so keep an eye on the event. Join the Travel Tech Hackathon and meet people from the tourism and startup community, build your professional network, work with the best mentors, develop solutions, and win a prize! PRIZES1st place – 2 000 EUR gift vouchers for electronic goods (for audio, video, smart gadgets or other chosen)2nd place – 1 000 EUR gift vouchers for electronic goods3rd place – 500 EUR gift vouchers for electronic goodsSpecial prize founded by Baltic Sandbox Ventures - for deep tech innovation.15 000 EUR grant with innovation development "incubation" program. Prize could be awarded for solution using high-tech innovation in engineering or science. ﻿Moderator, mentors and jury Edmundas Balčikonis, Such Much AI. Moderator. Jahid Sakhi, Fiedler Capital Viktorija Trimbel, Coinvest Capital Andrius Milinavičius, Baltic Sandbox Ventures Rokas Tamošiūnas, Open Circle Capital Kasparas Jurgelionis, Iron Wolf Capital Martynas Kandzeras, Lithuanian Business Angels Network Dominykas Stankevičius, Taiwania Capital More mentors and jury members to be announced.Additional information: • Location: Vilnius University Tech Hub, Saulėtekio al. 9, Vilnius• The event is free of charge. • Language of the event – English. • Registration is mandatory. • You can register with a team, or you can register individually (you’ll join a team during the event). Each team member must fill out a separate registration form, indicating the team’s name in the designated field. Registration is still open.REGISTER YOUR IDEA <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScHGkQ6EkBfq64ZEbJtp4uBenWMLUeas0qBlAkrqu3OSv2pXw/viewform" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">HERE</a>

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