The Tourism Innovation Program

Aims to meet the needs of businesses in the tourism industry by developing concrete solutions to:

  • Improve their productivity, competitiveness or efficiency;
  • Counter the labour shortage;
  • Promote the digital shift;
  • Reduce the environmental footprint of their activities
It includes various initiatives including calls for solutions, the Project Funding Program, the Growth Program, the Tourism Innovation Certification, the Directory of Innovative Solutions and more!

 

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

  • The applicant must have been in operation for more than one year;
  • The applicant must have a Quebec registration number (NEQ);
  • The same company cannot be a recipient of the same financial support program for two consecutive years. The company will be eligible to apply again in a subsequent year, if the project varies substantially from what was previously supported, or if the company demonstrates that it has reached a new phase of its life cycle
  • A supplier and a recipient of Tourism Innovation Program funding cannot be awarded for more than 2 consecutive years.

  • A supplier and a beneficiary of a call for challenges or a call for solutions cannot be winners for a 2nd consecutive year

  • A supplier and a recipient may not be recipients of a financial support program more than once in the same year within the Tourism Innovation Program. 

Initiatives included in Year 1 (2021-2022)

  • Call for solutions: Labour shortage
  • Growth Program – Cohort 1

Initiatives included in Year 2 (2022-2023)

  • Discovery Camp
  • Project Funding Program 
  • Growth Program – Cohort 2

Initiatives included in Year 3 (2023-2024)

  • Call for Challenges: Managing Tourism Flows
  • Call for Challenges: Waste Management
  • Call for Solutions: Sustainable Mobility
  • Project Funding Program 
  • Growth Program – Cohort 3

Initiatives included in Year 4 (2024-2025)

  • Call for solutions in Artificial Intelligence
  • Call for solutions in Tourist Reception
  • Call for solutions Changing rooms of the future
  • Project Funding Program 
  • Growth Program – Cohort 4
This program is part of the Tourism Innovation Program managed by the MT Lab and set up with the financial support of the Ministry of Tourism.