Booking.com Announces the Award Recipients of its 2019 Accelerator Program for Startups in Sustainable Tourism

Okra Solar from Australia and IMPULSE Travel from Colombia are
both awarded this year's highest grants of EUR400k from Booking.com's
EUR2 million fund

Amsterdam (ots/PRNewswire) - Today leading digital travel platform
Booking.com announced the sustainable tourism startups receiving
scaling grants as part of its 2019 Booking Booster accelerator
program. Now in its third year, the three-week accelerator program
consists of a series of lectures, hands-on workshops and coaching
sessions led entirely by Booking.com employees and experts. The
program culminates in a final pitch to receive a scaling grant of up
to EUR500k from Booking.com's EUR2 million fund in order to help
support the next stage of the startups' projected growth.

The 10 teams of finalists pitched their scaling plans to a live
audience and a panel of expert judges in Amsterdam, with Okra Solar
(https://www.okrasolar.com/) and IMPULSE Travel
(http://www.impulsetravel.co/) being awarded this year's highest
grants of EUR400,000 for their proposed plans. With Okra's innovative
solar grid technology, they plan to transform the energy market and
provide affordable energy access for the more than one billion people
currently living off-grid. IMPULSE Travel is a regenerative tourism
platform for in-destination experiences, offering more than 200 tours
and activities in seven locations in Colombia.

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About Booking.com:

Established in 1996 in Amsterdam, Booking.com B.V. has grown from
a small Dutch start-up to one of the largest travel e-commerce
companies in the world. Part of Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:
BKNG), Booking.com now employs more than 17,000 employees in over 200
offices in 70 countries worldwide.

With a mission to empower people to experience the world,
Booking.com invests in digital technology that helps take the
friction out of travel. At Booking.com, we connect travelers with the
world's largest selection of incredible places to stay, including
everything from apartments, vacation homes, and family-run B&Bs to
5-star luxury resorts, tree houses and even igloos. The Booking.com
website and mobile apps are available in 43 languages, offer over 28
million total reported listings, including more than 5.8 million
listings of homes, apartments and other unique places to stay, across
148,000 destinations in 229 countries and territories worldwide.

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