Status: Stream 1 and 2 closed
The Australian Government is offering Reviving International Tourism Grants (RITG) to tourism exporters (inbound tour operators) and travel wholesalers (outbound tour operators/travel wholesalers). The purpose of this grant is to support travel and tourism businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The RITG program has $9 million of grant funding. Payment of grants will occur over 2 years.
RITG will fund:
The RITG program aligns with the Australian Government's work on building markets and attracting visitors. It supports key priorities from THRIVE 2030, the national long-term tourism strategy.
Austrade will administer the program over 2 financial years (2022–23 and 2023–24). The RITG program is split into 2 streams:
Status: Closed
RITG Stream 1 provides funding to eligible tourism exporters (inbound tour operators) and travel wholesalers (outbound tour operators/travel wholesalers) .
Eligible applicants must:
Applications:
Successful applications will receive the following grant amounts:
Stream 1 grantees will automatically receive a second round of funding if unspent grant funds remain at the end of the 2022–23 financial year. Austrade will advise grantees if this occurs.
Grantees who receive funding in both 2022–23 and 2023–24 may use these funds to attend the same eligible event.
Applicants for RITG Stream 1 must be:
In addition, applicants must have:
Applicants must also have attended one of the following events:
Austrade will accept one application per business (with a registered Australian Business Number).
Non-ATEC and/or non-CATO members are welcome to apply by following these steps:
Status: Closed
RITG Stream 2 funding is available to eligible Australian tourism businesses to launch digital uplift activities.
Applications:
To apply for Stream 2, applicants must register and create a user profile on SmartyGrants . Apply for Austrade's RITG funding on SmartyGrants
Successful applicants for RITG Stream 2 will receive a one-off payment of $2,000.
Applicants for RITG Stream 2 must:
or
They must also have:
Austrade will accept one application per business (with a registered Australian Business Number).
Successful applicants of both RITG Stream 1 and 2 will be given a 16-digit Virtual Credit Card (VCC) to pay grant expenses. This allows Austrade to monitor expenditure and acquit grant funding. Grantees may need to produce invoices to support their expenditure.
To make a transaction, grantees should enter the 16-digit number on an online merchant's website.
Please note the following conditions of RITG program expenditure:
A separate VCC will be issued for each RITG Stream, even if a grantee is successful for both Stream 1 and Stream 2. If a second payment is made in 2023–2024 for Stream 1, funds will automatically be credited to the existing Stream 1 VCC.
All RITG VCC will be de-activated on 1 July 2024 and any unspent grant funding will be forfeited.
Successful applicants must spend all grant funding by 30 June 2024. This may include allocating grant funding towards eligible activities up to 31 December 2024. All grant activities must conclude by 31 December 2024.
Email: RITGrant@austrade.gov.au