Tourism Grants and Government Funding - TQUAL - EMDG - Austrade

REVPAR is experienced in submitting grant applications for both hotel operators and tourism venues. How would you like to receive government funding for new building works you thought were too expensive? A carefully crafted submission can provide a variety of funding options ranging from $50,000 - $500,000. We can help you get a government rebate on existing marketing expenditure of 50c in the dollar up to $150,000 p.a. Read on...

TQUAL Tourism Grants

The TQUAL Grant is a competitive merit-based grant program that aims to assist in the development of a continuous tourism experience throughout Australia by supporting initiatives that will:

promote tourism development in regional and rural Australia
contribute to long term economic growth

increase visitation and yield throughout Australia
enhance visitor dispersal and tourism expenditure throughout Australia ,
increase Australia 's competitiveness as a tourism destination.

Export Market Development Grant (EMDG)

Majority of your typical hotel sales and marketing expenditure ( by its nature) is in fact also classed by Austrade as international marketing, with this in mind you may be eligible for a tourism grant refund on your sales and marketing expenditure. In 2006-07, 446 businesses in the tourism sector received grants and had export earnings of around $430 million. The Export Market Development Grant (EMDG) encourages small and medium sized hotels, motels, resorts and serviced apartments to increase their numbers of international guests by reimbursing up to 50 per cent of eligible expenses in a financial year above a threshold of $10,000, for any overseas market except New Zealand.

Eligible Expenditure
Did you do any of the following?

Design, produce or distribute marketing collateral to international conference organisers, travel agents?
Design, build or update your website for the international guest?
Spend money on online marketing/ advertising?
State Tourism and RTO based marketing initiatives?
Hire a sales and marketing consultant?
Travel overseas or host an international travel booker/ agent at your venue?

Smaller venues joint venture option

The EMDG scheme’s joint venture provision allows businesses with complementary products to band together to be eligible for EMDG.

For example, if you are a group of tourist-focused accommodation, transport and restaurant businesses operating in a specific region, or a group of bed and breakfast operators from a particular region, who jointly promote your products or services you may be able to apply as a group as an EMDG approved joint venture.

This is just a few of the items that are eligible to be claimed under the EMDG program.

Other grants available include;

Research and Development tax concession
Commercial Ready Grants Program
Grow your Business Grant
Small Business Succession Planning Grant
Small Business Mentoring and Training Grants

Even if you are familiar with government grants or the Export Market Development Grant scheme, we can add value via a review of your current situation and discussing ways to maximise your grant and restructuring your procedures.

Contact us now via enquiries@revpar.com.au to discuss how the state and federal governments are able to assist you to grow your business through government subsidies and grants funding.