Tourism Innovation Program

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

Improve their productivity, competitiveness or efficiency;
Countering labor shortages;
Promote the digital shift;
Reduce the environmental footprint of their activities

It includes various initiatives such as calls for solutions, the Project Financing Program, the Growth Program, the Tourism Innovation Certification, the Directory of Innovative Solutions and much 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 may not be awarded the same financial financial support program 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 in its life cycle.
A supplier and a recipient of funding from the Tourism Innovation Program cannot be winners for more than 2 consecutive years.
A supplier and a beneficiary of a call for challenges or a call for solutions cannot be a winner for a 2nd consecutive year.
A supplier and a beneficiary may not receive financial support from the Tourism Innovation Program more than once in the same year.

Initiatives included in year 1 (2021-2022)

Call for solutions : Labor shortage
Excellence Scholarship
Incubés grant
HR Grant
Growth Program – Cohort 1

Initiatives included in year 2 (2022-2023)

Discovery camp
Project financing program 2022-2023
Growth Program – Cohort 2

Initiatives included in year 3 (2023-2024)

Call for proposals: Tourism flow management
Call for challenges: Residual materials management
Call for solutions: Sustainable mobility
Project funding program 2023-2024
Growth Program – Cohort 3

Initiatives included in year 4 (2024-2025)

Call for artificial intelligence solutions
Project financing program 2024-2025
Growth Program – Cohort 4

Further initiatives to be announced

Tourism Innovation Program

Tourism Innovation Program

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

Initiatives included in year 1 (2021-2022)

Initiatives included in year 2 (2022-2023)

Initiatives included in year 3 (2023-2024)

Initiatives included in year 4 (2024-2025)

This program is part of the Tourism Innovation Program managed by MT Lab and set up with the financial support of the Ministry of Tourism.

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