Strategic Tourism Investment Grants (STIGs)
Date published :
26
April
2012
As a follow up to Minister Ferguson's Indigenous
Tourism Employment Roundtable NESA would like to draw your
attention to an opportunity for growing Indigenous tourism arising
through the Strategic Tourism Investment Grants (STIGs) program
managed by the Department of Resources, Energy and
Tourism.
Strategic Tourism Investment Grants (STIGs) is a program
offered under the T-QUAL Grants program administered by the
Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism. The program
offers funding of up to $1 million (excl GST) to eligible
nationally significant and innovative tourism projects aimed at
developing Indigenous tourism, economic development and/or tourism
employment. A fact sheet containing further information on
Strategic Tourism Investment Grants may be found at
http://www.ret.gov.au/tourism/Documents/tqual/stig/Factsheet_STIG.pdf.
Minister Ferguson called for applications for two new STIG
projects:
- Australia's National Landscapes Project:
http://minister.ret.gov.au/MediaCentre/MediaReleases/Pages/EnhancingNature-TourismExperiences.aspx.
- To be delivered under two separate streams, this project will
assist in positioning the Australian tourism industry within
National Landscapes to build its capacity to address supply-side
issues facing the industry as outlined in the Tourism 2020 Strategy
by
- enabling a number of National Landscapes to complete their
Experience Development Strategies (EDS), and
- realising opportunities within other National Landscapes that
have been identified as being investment ready through an existing
EDS process.
- RET is seeking to engage an organisation (which could represent
a consortium) with skills and experience in working with a broad
range of project stakeholders, including Commonwealth and State
Government organisations, to develop and coordinate the delivery of
these two streams.
- Growing Indigenous Tourism:
http://minister.ret.gov.au/MediaCentre/MediaReleases/Pages/GrowingIndigenousTourism.aspx
- For projects that will create an iconic Australian Indigenous
tourism experience, or product, that will provide immersion in
Indigenous cultural practices and experiences including stories,
art, dance, song or other activities for domestic and international
visitors.
- Multiple projects of up to $1,000,000 each in grant funding
will be available to the successful grantees on a matched
investment basis. The total number of projects funded will be
determined following assessment of all applications.
For further information and documentation about these
projects I encourage you to either
Applications close at 5pm Wednesday 30 May
2012.
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