Regional partnership and digital transformation agreement in tourism

• Business plan.
• Financial statements for the two most recently completed fiscal years and detailed projected financial statements for the first three years of operation.
• Board resolution or equivalent authorizing the signatory to provide all relevant documents for the program or application.
• Confirmation from the ministère de la Culture et des Communications regarding whether the Politique d’intégration des arts à l’architecture et à l’environnement des bâtiments et des sites gouvernementaux et publics applies.
• List of required authorizations, attestations, certificates or permits, and for studies or advisory-services projects, a copy of the tender specifications.

Who is eligible?

• For-profit organizations (OBL), non-profit organizations (OBNL), and cooperatives in tourism.
• Municipal entities.
• Communities and nations recognized by the National Assembly, as well as Indigenous organizations and tourism businesses.
• Groupings of these eligible clienteles.
• Regional tourism associations (ATR), but only for studies and advisory services projects and regional tourism offer structuring projects, with financial partners for each project submitted.

Who is not eligible

• State-owned corporations and ministries and organizations of the governments of Quebec and Canada.
• Any applicant listed in the Registre des entreprises non admissibles aux contrats publics.
• Enterprises not compliant with the francization process of the Office québécois de la langue française.

Eligible expenses

• Professional or consultant fees for project design, engineering, studies, diagnostics, advisory services, project monitoring, or accountability.
• Costs to carry out eligible projects, including construction, reconstruction, expansion, development, improvement, adaptation, or conversion of tourism infrastructure or equipment.
• Purchase and installation of specialized equipment, digital equipment, software, applications, integrated management software, e-commerce software, and related implementation costs.
• Travel costs within applicable public-sector rates, salaries and employee benefits specifically tied to the project, and net taxes related to eligible costs.
• Costs related to the integration of art under the Politique d’intégration des arts à l’architecture et à l’environnement des bâtiments et des sites gouvernementaux et publics.

Ineligible Costs and Activities

• Projects involving tourist inns, hotel condominiums, cycling paths, or snowmobile trails.
• Projects in the restaurant or retail sectors, gambling, training-content development, or places dedicated to alcohol sales and consumption.
• Projects where most costs relate to upgrading, maintenance, or replacement of existing infrastructure or equipment.
• Projects already completed or underway at the time of application, business acquisition projects, or projects with fewer than four tourism residences unless an exception applies.
• Projects already receiving non-repayable funding from the Programme d’aide à la relance de l’industrie touristique (PARIT) or another program put in place by the MTO or its partners, if applicable.

• Alignment with the objectives of the EPRTNT 25-27 and, where applicable, regional priorities.
• Structuring impact, including attraction power, project scope, benefits, collaboration with partners, job creation, and extension of the tourism season.
• Innovative character and quality of the concept, products, and services.
• Financial structure and strategic relevance, including tourist clientele, diversification, market, competition, quality of the offer, marketing strategy, and linkages.
• Feasibility and sustainable development considerations, including schedule, quality of the business plan or study brief, promoter expertise, and integration of sustainable development principles.

• Contact the regional tourism association (ATR) for your region first.
• Obtain the application form, the promoter guide, and the application deadline for your tourism region from that ATR.
• Send your financial assistance application directly to your regional ATR.

• A financial assistance agreement must be signed between the promoter whose project is selected and the regional ATR managing the EPRTNT 2025-2027.

• Regional tourism associations administer the program in each tourism region.
• Projects for festival or event infrastructure or advisory services must be submitted under Attraits, activités et équipements or Études et services-conseils.
• For a digital attraction project, applicants must use the Attraits, activités et équipements category, while a needs-analysis project belongs under Études et services-conseils.
• The term entités municipales includes municipal bodies covered by article 5 of the Loi sur l’accès aux documents des organismes publics et sur la protection des renseignements personnels (RLRQ, c. A-2.1).