Abitibi-Témiscamingue Tourism — EPRTNT 2025-2027 – Attractions, activities, and facilities

• Duly completed and signed application form in Excel format.
• Comprehensive business plan for the project, including required authorizations, attestations, certificates and permits.
• Financial statements for the last two fiscal years, where required.
• Three-year projected financial statements following project completion, where required.
• Board or equivalent resolution authorizing the signatory to submit the funding application.

• The applicant must be legally constituted under Quebec or Canadian law and conduct business in Quebec.
• The organization must have fulfilled commitments related to any previous subsidy from the partners, where applicable.
• Tourist accommodation operators must comply with applicable laws and regulations and hold a valid registration number.
• Nature and adventure tourism businesses must comply with, or commit to comply with, the Aventure Écotourisme Québec Qualité-Sécurité accreditation standards.
• The tourism business must be established in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region, and the project must take place on this territory.

Who is eligible?

• Tourism businesses organized as for-profit entities.
• Tourism organizations organized as non-profit entities.
• Tourism cooperatives.
• Municipal entities.
• Recognized Indigenous communities, nations and Indigenous tourism enterprises, as well as groupings of these clienteles.

Who is not eligible

• Crown corporations and ministries or agencies of the governments of Quebec and Canada.
• Applicants listed in the Register of enterprises ineligible for public contracts.
• Businesses not compliant with the Office québécois de la langue française francization process.

Eligible expenses

• Construction, expansion, reconstruction, adaptation, conversion, improvement or replacement of tourism infrastructures and equipment, including deployment of new tourism experiences.
• Construction and acquisition of equipment that enhances attraction capacity and supports workforce retention, where not the main project cost.
• Professional, technical, consulting and project management fees, including preliminary studies, business plans and eco-responsible development plans (up to two years prior to application).
• Costs for land and trail development, specialized equipment and furniture, acquisition of boats and visitor-dedicated rolling stock, and acquisition of required land, servitudes and rights of way.
• Costs related to integrating sustainable practices and climate adaptation, surveying, on-site quality control, net taxes, contingencies (up to 15% of eligible costs) and integration of artworks under the provincial policy.

Ineligible Costs and Activities

• Acquisition of an existing business and its infrastructures.
• Promotion and marketing costs, including website redesign.
• Acquisition of animals, administrative or storage equipment and materials, and equipment for retail spaces.
• Land, building and facility rentals, non-visitor-dedicated motorized transport, usual maintenance, operating expenses, working capital, debt service, and cost overruns.
• Compliance and asset-maintenance costs, refundable taxes, asset transfers, in-kind or service contributions, financing fees, lobbyist remuneration, direct or indirect operating/administrative costs, pre-commitment costs (except eligible preparatory fees) and legal fees.

Eligible geographic areas

• Businesses established and projects carried out in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec.

• Alignment of the project with the EPRTNT 2025-2027 objectives.
• Structuring impact, including attraction power, project reach, economic benefits, partnerships, job creation and season extension.
• Innovative character and quality of the concept, products and services.
• Sound financial structure and relevance regarding target tourist clientele, markets, competition and marketing strategy.
• Feasibility of the project, including schedule, business plan quality, promoter expertise and integration of sustainable development principles.

• Step 1: Obtain Application Form
  • Download or request the EPRTNT 2025-2027 financial assistance application form for the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region.
• Step 2: Prepare Application Dossier
  • Complete the application form in Excel format and have it signed by the authorized representative.
  • Gather all required supporting documents listed in the program guidelines.
• Step 3: Submit Application
  • Send the completed form and required documents by email to the address indicated (eprtnt@atrat.org) before the stated deadlines.

• The project must include concrete sustainable development measures with positive environmental, social and economic impacts.
• A public call for tenders is required for any construction contract of $100,000 or more funded by this program.
• Projects of construction or expansion of $150,000 or more for public buildings or sites may be subject to the Quebec Policy for integrating arts into architecture and the environment.
• OBL recipients with more than 100 employees receiving $100,000 or more must commit to implementing an equal access employment program.