EPRTNT — Attractions, activities and facilities

• Completed and signed application form in Excel
• Project business plan, including required permits and authorizations
• Recent financial statements and three-year projected financial statements
• Board resolution authorizing the application signatory
• Partner funding confirmation, if available
• Proof of compliance with Aventure Écotourisme Québec standards, if applicable
• Indigenous certification, if applicable

Who is eligible?

• Tourism businesses: for-profit organizations, non-profit organizations, and cooperatives
• Municipal entities
• Recognized Indigenous communities and nations, as well as Indigenous tourism businesses
• Any grouping of these eligible applicants

Who is not eligible

• State-owned corporations, and ministries and agencies of the governments of Quebec and Canada
• Applicants listed in the Register of Enterprises Ineligible for Public Contracts
• Businesses that are not compliant with the Office québécois de la langue française francization process

Eligible expenses

• Construction, expansion, improvement, replacement, and adaptation costs for eligible tourism infrastructure and equipment
• Professional fees for design, engineering, supervision, and project management
• Land development, trail development, specialized equipment, furniture, boats, and rolling stock
• Surveying, quality control, net taxes, and approved public art integration costs

Ineligible Costs and Activities

• Business acquisition and its infrastructure
• Promotion and marketing costs, including website redesign
• Administrative, storage, retail-space, financing, legal, and operating costs
• Maintenance, asset upkeep, regulatory compliance, and cost overruns
• Projects already completed or under way when the application is filed

Eligible geographic areas

• Tourisme Cantons-de-l’Est territory

• Alignment with EPRTNT 25-27 objectives, including innovation, sustainable development, and digital transformation
• Structuring character, including regional attractiveness, tangible benefits, consultation and networking, local/regional/sectoral reach, seasonality, data protection, cybersecurity, capacity, productivity, and the human dimension of the technological project
• Strategic relevance, including promising products, promising niches, market size and competition, market positioning, and marketing strategy
• Strategic management and feasibility, including governance, business process structuring, human and organizational resources, promoter expertise and experience, financial resources, schedule and operations, and application quality

• Step 1: Pre-eligibility assessment
  • Complete the pre-eligibility form.
  • Have the form validated by Tourisme Cantons-de-l’Est.
• Step 2: Prepare the application
  • Complete the EPRTNT application form.
  • Gather the required supporting documents.
• Step 3: Submit by email
  • Return the completed Excel form and documents to eprtnt@atrce.com.

• Submit the pre-eligibility form for review by Tourisme Cantons-de-l’Est
• If eligible, receive the application form by email
• Send the completed application and required documents by email
• Applications are reviewed over several months
• Applicants are notified by official funding or refusal letter

• Applications are first screened through a pre-eligibility form.
• Incomplete applications are automatically rejected.
• Approved applicants must sign a funding agreement.
• Projects may be subject to public procurement and cultural arts-integration rules.