Develop ideas and accelerate businesses in the tourism sector
If you have an idea to be developed, then Beta Shift is what you need
Beta Shift will teach you in a real live scenario (as real as you make it) the main steps needed to go from “Am I crazy or does this idea make sense?” to “I have actual initial proof that this makes sense (or doesn’t)” in just 3 days.
If you have a startup and want to accelerate it,
then Beta Start is what you need
Beta Start will support you in improving your business, validating your solution, designing it, and structuring your organization. All leveraged by our expertise in managing a Top 10 Accelerator in Europe for years. A 3-month program focused on empowering you to go bolder.
What is Shift to Start – Tourism Edition?
Tourism sector demands meaningful innovation more than ever.
That is why Shift to Start – Tourism Edition was created: a Beta-i project, supported by Turismo de Portugal, designed to bring new solutions into this industry.
Shift to Start is a double-layered framework to support early-stage entrepreneurs in modeling ideas, and/or startups accelerating new businesses for Tourism. Depending on your stage, you can submit to one or another – or even both. You will count on Beta-i’s 10-years strong track record in mentoring, business development, and collaborative innovation: reliable support for you to make it happen, no bullshit or fake promises involved.
Partners
expertise and organization
Beta-i
Beta-i is a collaborative innovation consultancy with global reach. We’re experts in managing corporate open innovation, pilot-oriented projects with highly-curated startups, and designing products and services alongside in-company teams. Also, we use our acceleration expertise and network to help ecosystems grow, connecting a huge network of entrepreneurs, mentors, experts, investors, and knowledge institutions to solve things that matter. That’s what we’re doing here, with Shift to Start.
main partner
Turismo de Portugal
Integrated within the Ministry of the Economy, Turismo de Portugal is the national tourism authority responsible for promotion, enhancement, and sustainability of tourism activities, aggregating within a single entity all the institutional competencies related to stimulation of tourism activities, from the supply sector to demand.
