Alice Springs Revival and Resilience Grant Program

Supporting Central Australia’s tourism industry.

Status: Closed

Alice Springs Revival and Resilience Grant Program

The $1 million Alice Springs Revival and Resilience Grant Program aims to support small tourism businesses in the Mparntwe/Alice Springs and Tjoritja/MacDonnell tourism region. The region’s visitor economy has faced challenges in recent years.

How the program works

Austrade will administer the Alice Springs Revival and Resilience Grant Program over the 2025–26 financial year.

Applications were demand driven and eligibility based.

Program objective

The objective of the Alice Springs Revival and Resilience Grant program is to provide support to small tourism operators that are facing financial hardship in the Alice Springs and MacDonnell tourism region, enabling them to remain open and operational, while the region continues to recover.

Program outcomes

The intended outcome of the Alice Springs Revival and Resilience Grant program is for eligible tourism operators in the Alice Springs and MacDonnell tourism region to receive funding for operational expenses to increase their ability to remain open and operational throughout the program and into financial year 2026-27.

This helps ensure that tourism operators in the Alice Springs and MacDonnell region remain open and operational, so these eligible businesses continue to service visitors to the region.

Grant amounts

A total of $1 million over the 2025-26 financial year is available for the Alice Springs Revival and Resilience Grant.

Eligibility and grant dates

Applicants had to:

  • be the operator of a tourism business that has 19 staff or less
  • have an annual turnover of less than $5 million
  • have experienced a cumulative decrease of at least 20% in turnover and visitor numbers over the past 3 financial years from 2022–23 to 2024–25
  • meet other eligibility requirements.

The program opened for applications at midday AEDT on 11 November 2025.

The closing date for grant applications was 4:00 pm AEDT on 8 December 2025.

Grantees must acquit all funds by 30 June 2026.

Contact us

Email: tourism.grants@austrade.gov.au

Phone: 13 28 78