Québec — Entente de partenariat régional et de transformation numérique en tourisme (EPRTNT 2025-2027)
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Eligibility & Details
What this program funds and who can apply
Program Description
Non-repayable grants for structuring tourism projects in Quebec, funded by the Ministère du Tourisme and delivered by each region's regional tourism association (ATR). Six project categories are eligible: attractions and equipment, structuring the regional tourism offer, accommodation, festivals and events, studies and consulting services, and a business's digital development. The amount, aid rate, minimum project cost and application deadline are all set regionally by the ATR, not by the province.
Eligibility Requirements
- Applicant must be one of the following tourism organizations, or any grouping of them: a for-profit organization (OBL), a non-profit (OBNL), a cooperative, a municipal entity, or an Indigenous community or nation recognized by the National Assembly, including Indigenous organizations and businesses
- The business must be legally constituted under the laws of the government of Quebec or of Canada and must do business in Quebec
- Regional tourism associations (ATRs) themselves are eligible only for studies and consulting projects and for regional tourism offer-structuring projects, and must have financial partners for each project they submit
- Businesses and organizations operating a tourist accommodation establishment must comply with the applicable laws and regulations and hold a registration number
- Applicants must have honoured their commitments to partners under any previous grant
- Nature and adventure tourism businesses must show, where required, that they meet the Aventure Écotourisme Québec Qualité-Sécurité accreditation standards, have begun a process toward them, or commit to do so
- Crown corporations and departments and agencies of the governments of Quebec and Canada are not eligible
- Any applicant listed on the Registre des entreprises non admissibles aux contrats publics is not eligible
- The project must be structuring and must fall in one of six categories: attractions, activities and equipment; structuring the regional tourism offer; accommodation; festivals and events; studies and consulting services; or a business's digital development
- STREAM-SPECIFIC — Accommodation: projects involving fewer than four tourist residences are excluded, unless the project adds units so the organization will operate four or more tourist residences on a single site after the initiative, or the tourist-residence project is part of a broader accommodation or activity offer, existing or to be developed
- STREAM-SPECIFIC — Structuring the regional tourism offer: the theme must be representative of the region and have an impact across it, the project must generate benefits for several partners, must receive financial backing from various local organizations or businesses, and its durability must be guaranteed for more than three years
- STREAM-SPECIFIC — Studies and consulting services: the mandate must be carried out by a specialized firm or recognized organization selected through a call for bids, and two quotes are required
- STREAM-SPECIFIC — Festivals and events: the event must be a public event produced in and taking place in Quebec, organized around a theme and programme that draws substantial visitor traffic (day-trippers and tourists) and animates the destination; infrastructure or consulting work for a festival must instead be submitted under the attractions or the studies category
- Depending on the project category, a promoter cash contribution and a maximum on total government assistance may apply — the specific figures are set regionally
- A funding agreement must be signed between the promoter and the ATR that manages EPRTNT 2025-2027 in the region
- A public call for tenders is mandatory for awarding any construction contract of $100,000 or more; construction costs of $100,000 or more that were not publicly tendered are ineligible, and the bidder must hold a licence under the Building Act with the required qualification
- A for-profit with more than 100 employees receiving $100,000 or more must commit to implementing an equal-access employment program consistent with the Charter of human rights and freedoms
- Construction or expansion of a building or site open to the public must comply with Quebec's policy on integrating art into architecture, with the project description and cost list filed with the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications
- All businesses operating in Quebec, regardless of size, must comply with the Act respecting French, the official and common language of Québec
- Applications must be sent directly to the applicant's regional tourism association (ATR), not to the Ministère
Quick Assessment
Funding Details
- Amount
- Variable by region and project category — the Ministère publishes no provincial figure; each regional tourism association sets the minimum project cost, maximum assistance and aid rate. The aid is a non-repayable grant.
- Type
- Grant
- Level
- Provincial
- Deadline
- Set regionally — contact your regional tourism association (ATR) for its submission deadline; the province publishes none
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How to Win
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Insider TipEverything that matters here is decided by your regional tourism association, so the first move is a phone call to the ATR — it holds the form, the promoter's guide, the minimum project cost, the maximum assistance, the aid rate and the deadline, none of which the province publishes. Watch the naming when you go looking: several regions administer their EPRTNT allocation under a different title, so searching for "EPRTNT" on their sites returns nothing. Destination Québec cité runs it as the Programme de soutien à l'industrie touristique (PSIT 2026); Tourisme Lanaudière, Tourisme Laurentides and Tourisme Laval publish a "Programme d'aide financière"; Tourisme Montréal an "aide aux partenaires" program; Tourisme Chaudière-Appalaches a "Financement et accompagnement" page; Tourisme Nunavik and Tourisme Outaouais "Programmes de financement". Two structural traps: pick the right category before you write, because a festival's infrastructure work has to go in "Attraits, activités et équipements" rather than the festivals category, and a needs analysis has to go in "Études et services-conseils" rather than the digital category. And if any construction contract will hit $100,000, run a public call for tenders — untendered construction costs at or above that threshold are ineligible.
Rejection Pitfalls 11
- The project does not fall into one of the six eligible categories, or is not structuring enough to meet the program objectives
- The applicant is not legally constituted under Quebec or Canadian law, or does not do business in Quebec
- The applicant is a Crown corporation or a government department or agency, or is listed on the Registre des entreprises non admissibles aux contrats publics
Success Profile
A legally constituted Quebec tourism business, cooperative, non-profit, municipal entity or Indigenous organization with a project that visibly advances its own region's tourism priorities — a new or modernized attraction, an accommodation project of four or more tourist residences or one that lifts the region's accommodation quality or extends its season, a regionally significant festival, a consultant-led diagnostic or business-practice project, or the implementation of digital transaction, customer-experience and revenue-management systems. Files that land well have already been shaped in conversation with the ATR, come with two years of statements plus three-year forecasts, and demonstrate benefits reaching beyond the applicant to other operators in the region.
Evaluation Criteria
The province sets the frame and each regional tourism association sets the detail. Provincially, projects must be structuring and must meet the program's objectives: stimulating the local economy by developing a responsible and sustainable tourism offer, showcasing an innovative tourism offer, and developing new niches for tourism businesses with positive spin-offs for the region and its community; and strengthening tourism businesses by adopting better business practices — particularly around social and environmental responsibility — and integrating innovative solutions including digital technologies. Projects are also judged against the ATR's own regional priorities. The specific scoring grid, the minimum project cost, the maximum assistance and the aid rate are all held by the ATR and issued with its promoter's guide.
Application Playbook
Step-by-step process, required documents, and expenses
Application Steps
Required Documents 9
Eligible Expenses 8
- Construction, expansion or improvement of tourism infrastructure, and the development or renewal of tourism products and services
- Consolidation, establishment, expansion or modernization of an attraction, item of equipment, activity or tourism service
- Accommodation projects that structure a territory, fill a shortfall of accommodation units, raise the quality of the accommodation sector, extend the operating season, or add new services for tourism clienteles
- Organizing and staging regionally significant festivals and events, or a specific aspect of their development
- A consultant contract for consulting services, a study, a diagnostic or individual in-business coaching covering business practices, workforce skills, customer service, digital needs, a new project or activity, responsible and sustainable policies, or business-model renewal
- Acquisition and implementation of digital solutions for transactions, customer experience, and the management and optimization of customer data and sales revenue, including better connection between existing digital systems
- Implementation of tourist routes and circuits, a thematic and identity product for the region, and initiatives improving access to territories, intermodality and sustainable traveller mobility
- Costs of integrating art into architecture, where Quebec's public-art policy applies to the project
Ineligible Expenses 3
- Construction costs of $100,000 or more that were not awarded through a public call for tenders
- Costs of a consulting mandate awarded without a call for bids and two quotes
- Costs of an accommodation project involving fewer than four tourist residences that does not meet a published exception
Intake Periods
Set regionally, not provincially. Each of the 21 regional tourism associations issues its own submission deadline along with the application form and promoter's guide, and those dates can also differ by project category within a region. Contact your ATR to find the current window.
Deadline Notes
There is no provincial deadline. The Ministère is explicit that you must contact your regional tourism association first, and that it is the ATR that supplies "le formulaire à remplir; le guide du promoteur, qui contient des précisions quant aux documents à joindre à votre demande; la date limite de dépôt des demandes pour votre région touristique." Deadlines therefore differ region by region and can differ by project category within a region. Watch the naming: several ATRs run their EPRTNT allocation under their own program name — Destination Québec cité calls it the Programme de soutien à l'industrie touristique (PSIT 2026), Tourisme Lanaudière, Tourisme Laurentides and Tourisme Laval each publish a "Programme d'aide financière", Tourisme Montréal an "aide aux partenaires" program, Tourisme Chaudière-Appalaches a "Financement et accompagnement" page, and Tourisme Nunavik and Tourisme Outaouais "Programmes de financement" — so searching those regions' sites for "EPRTNT" will find nothing.
Ineligible Organizations
- Crown corporations and departments and agencies of the governments of Quebec and Canada
- Any applicant listed on the Registre des entreprises non admissibles aux contrats publics
- Regional tourism associations applying outside the two categories open to them (studies and consulting services, and structuring the regional tourism offer), or without financial partners for the project
- Businesses not legally constituted under Quebec or Canadian law, or not doing business in Quebec
- Tourist accommodation operators without the required registration number
- Organizations that failed to honour their commitments to partners under a previous grant
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Funding Stack Strategy
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Clawback Risk
Medium RiskThe province publishes no clawback clause — the conditions live in the funding agreement signed with the regional tourism association, and therefore vary by region. Two provincially stated consequences are worth planning around: construction costs of $100,000 or more awarded without a public call for tenders are treated as ineligible under the program, which can strip a large slice out of an approved budget after the fact; and failing to honour commitments to partners under a previous grant makes an organization ineligible for further assistance. Ask your ATR for the agreement template before you sign.
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