What do a water fountain, quality management software, a carbon capture project funding platform, a flow control and forecasting tool, and materials-separated dry toilets have in common? Not much a priori, except for the highly innovative nature of each of these solutions.
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Innovation linked to the development strategy in the tourism market, which makes JuWIn, Ancodea, H64, Hupi and Kollect Tech, the startups carrying these solutions, the first five winners of Bivouac 64, a brand new tourism innovation system in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Presentation of the first promotion of these 5 “campers” took place on Monday, March 18 at the premises of ADT 64, the resort travel agency that operates this system.
“It’s not a duplication of what already exists”warns its president Max Brisson. “Bivouac is not a nursery, it is not an incubator; our role is not to innovate for innovation’s sake. On the other hand, we know networks, professionals in the tourism industry. We are an explorer of tourism innovation to help tourism companies innovate while ensuring the sustainability of the economic model and by meeting societal expectations regarding the environment, energy…”
Collective and personalized support
Already at the inception of this project, the departmental tourism plan two years ago proved that from the point of view of tourism “it is no longer about promoting destinations, but about promoting differentiated, sophisticated and unique products”. From what act. Bivak aims to achieve this result by enabling innovation and tourism stakeholders to meet over a 12-month period. Enable the development of winning companies in the tourism market and enable tourism participants to further integrate innovation, “while ensuring its social acceptability”adds Max Brisson.
Specifically, ADT will offer collective and personalized support to startups throughout the year on the topics of project engineering, marketing, financial strategy, but also on a broader scale, a real immersion in tourist culture and its trends. This bivouac, with a budget of 80,000 euros, which was realized with innovative partners such as CCI, the University of Pau Pays de l’Adour, the Tourisme Lab Nouvelle-Aquitaine incubator, the Hélioparc technopole or the Vilage by CA, is also an opportunity for five winners who they will test their solution on this tourism market at the scale of individual departments.
Winning startups
Whoops develops a flow analysis and management, recommendation and prediction tool that can be used for tourist flows. In any case, the bivouac will allow product testing, especially in a natural environment, “for example, in terms of robustness, but also a comparison with the tourism sector, which we know very little about. We usually work mainly with manufacturers”suggests Romain Roquefère, co-founder of the startup.
Collection of tech develops dry toilets with material separators that enable both water saving and material recovery. the ambition of Patrick Astruc, its founder: “plan the collection and recovery network development program across the department and share my innovation feedback with tourism stakeholders”.
JuWin creates water fountains and foot washes that save water. Hervé Laroquette, its founder, wants to promote the cooperative Coop’Eau, created by JuWin, with the mission of bringing together stakeholders and solutions in the field of water saving, as well as educational activities, in addition to getting the word out about his product to tourism stakeholders on this topic.
Ancodea is software for simplifying the management of quality processes (which is popular with many participants in the tourism industry) and thus saves time and optimizes their monitoring and implementation. “Consolidate the solution position and conquer new markets while relying on experience on a national scale”this is the aim of Joëlle Burgau, co-founder of this tool within Bivouc 64.
H64, A “climate fintech” startup, it measures the carbon footprint of organizations and projects and is developing the Zerofund platform to finance local agricultural projects that support carbon capture. One of the key goals for Jamil Benabdallah, the founder: “Test our solution in real-world conditions and evaluate the effectiveness and impact of this new product. »